David Cameron’s resignation honours have now been published—and it is an extensive list. Cameron has nominated 13 people for peerages including his former chief of staff Ed Llewellyn, the former head of his policy unit Camilla Cavendish and his former head of operations Liz Sugg. The current treasurer of the Tory party Andrew Farmer is another heading to the red benches. But Michael Spencer, the former Tory treasurer and head of ICAP, is not on the list.
As the Sunday Times revealed last week, there will be honours for many of Cameron’s closest allies and those who worked with him at Number 10. George Osborne becomes a Companion of Honour. Michael Fallon becomes a knight commander of the Order of Bath. Oliver Letwin, Patrick McLoughlin and Craig Oliver will all be knighted.
Strikingly it is not just those who worked with Cameron at Number 10 who are getting gongs. Will Straw, who ran the Remain campaign, gets a CBE and Charlotte Vere from the Conservative IN campaign gets a peerage. These awards risk looking like a simple rejection of the voters’ verdict in the referendum.
But it isn’t just Cameron’s nominations that are going to cause controversy. Jeremy Corbyn has put forward Shami Chakrabarti for a peerage. She ran Labour’s ‘independent inquiry’ into allegations of anti-Semitism in the party.
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