2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours (Boris Johnson)

Following his resignation as Prime Minister in September 2022, Boris Johnson compiled a list of those he thought deserving of honours.

[2][3] In June 2023, The Times reported that incumbent Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had approved the honours list.

[7] The identity of these eight individuals is uncertain but there is speculation that they include former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries and Johnson ally Nigel Adams, who both subsequently resigned from the House of Commons.

[7] There was also controversy as Johnson gave honours for various people involved in Partygate events, including Martin Reynolds, Shaun Bailey (at the 14 December 2020 gathering at Conservative Campaign Headquarters), Ben Mallet (at the 14 December 2020 gathering at Conservative Campaign Headquarters), Shelley Williams-Walker (at the 15 April 2021 party),[8] Jack Doyle (at an 18 December 2020 event),[8] Dan Rosenfield (in office during the period of Partygate events), and Rosie Bate-Williams (a press adviser who handled some of Johnson's denials).

[9] On 29 June 2023, four of the MPs in the honours list, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Dame Priti Patel, Sir Michael Fabricant and Dame Andrea Jenkyns, were accused (along with six other Conservatives) by the House of Commons Committee of Privileges of interfering with their investigation into Johnson's comments to Parliament about Partygate.