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And while nominations from outgoing prime ministers are traditional, this time the current head of government, Rishi Sunak, faced calls to block Truss’s list. Her 11 nominations mostly consisted of political supporters and former aides.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n
For instance:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n– Conservative donor John Moynihan, former CEO and chairman of PA Consulting Group, who led the “Vote Leave” campaign (donated <\/span><\/span>\u00a3<\/span><\/span>50,000 to Truss’s election campaign), as well as former Vote Leave program director Matthew Elliott and ex-senior Truss aide Ruth Porter, were nominated for seats in the House of Lords;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n– Conservative MP Alec Shelbrooke, former minister for <\/span><\/span>defence<\/span><\/span>procurement, who supported Truss’s campaign for Conservative Party leadership, received a knighthood;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n– Conservative MP for Th<\/span><\/span>urrock<\/span><\/span> Jackie Doyle-Price, a long-time friend of Ms. Truss, who held the position of Business Minister during her brief tenure at No. 10, becomes a Dame;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n– Conservative MPs and former ministerial aides Rob Butler and Su<\/span><\/span>z<\/span><\/span>ann<\/span><\/span>e<\/span><\/span> Webb, as well as former special advisors Sophie Jarvis and Shab<\/span><\/span>b<\/span><\/span>ir Merali, received CBE degrees;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n– Chairman of the Tory party in the southwest Norfolk constituency, David Hills, received MBE.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n
In the interest of fairness, it’s worth noting the only non-political figure in Liz Truss’s list, writer Shirley Conran, who becomes a Dame for contributions to mathematical education as the founder of the Maths Anxiety Trust.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n
Downing Street denies bias in the compilation of the nominee list, insisting that Liz Truss’s candidates underwent all standard checks, and the publication simply coincided with New Year ceremonies. “This is a long-standing convention whereby the serving prime minister does not block proposals from other political parties for peerages,” clarified No. 10.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n
Nevertheless, another perspective seems justifiable: “Many will be upset to see Liz Truss handing out peerages to friends and supporters after her catastrophically short tenure as prime minister. It appears that the political class is rewarding for failures at a time when many people are still suffering the consequences of her turbulent premiership,” noted Willie Sullivan, Senior Director of Electoral Campaigns at the Electoral Reform Society.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Publicised Honours List 2024 brings to the forefront numerous outstanding personalities from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth in various fields such as sports, arts, media, education, healthcare, and science. However, this year, the annual tradition coincided with another similar event \u2013 the publication of the “consolatory honours list for resignation” by former Prime Minister Liz Truss. Both were released on the same day, just before the New Year festivities. But let’s take it step by step…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":18492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"type_post":[],"column":[],"class_list":["post-18583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60134,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18583\/revisions\/60134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18583"},{"taxonomy":"type_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type_post?post=18583"},{"taxonomy":"column","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/column?post=18583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}