Outgoing PMs routinely recommend people for honours - but Rishi Sunak had faced calls to block Ms Truss’s list.
Hmm fucking pig fucker.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair did not issue a list by June 2007, apparently because of the “Cash for Honours scandal”.[3] Gordon Brown did not publish a resignation honours list either,[4][5] but a dissolution list was issued on his advice (to similar effect).[6]
David Cameron revived the practice in his Resignation Honours published in August 2016, following his resignation a month earlier.[7
Look at Brown’s dissolution list for gods’ sake, I haven’t counted exactly but a quick eyeball would seem it had more opposition appointments to Lords than Labour appointments.
Blair didn’t do it because he got caught showing the system up. So actually the last Labour list was issues in… 1976. In fact only two Labour PMs ever have done it, Atlee and Wilson.
Whoever at the Downing Street press office who spins their shit really doesn’t want us to look up their claims.
I mean that just sounds like Blair not doing it (Blair being pretty much the only good PM in living memory again, colour me shocked)
Brown did effectively the same thing but he was voted out rather than resigning, as did Major although he had both dissolution and resignation, but in practice they can be treated as the same thing
Hmm fucking pig fucker.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister's_Resignation_Honours
Look at Brown’s dissolution list for gods’ sake, I haven’t counted exactly but a quick eyeball would seem it had more opposition appointments to Lords than Labour appointments.
Blair didn’t do it because he got caught showing the system up. So actually the last Labour list was issues in… 1976. In fact only two Labour PMs ever have done it, Atlee and Wilson. Whoever at the Downing Street press office who spins their shit really doesn’t want us to look up their claims.
I mean that just sounds like Blair not doing it (Blair being pretty much the only good PM in living memory again, colour me shocked)
Brown did effectively the same thing but he was voted out rather than resigning, as did Major although he had both dissolution and resignation, but in practice they can be treated as the same thing