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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Patrick Daly

Johnson resignation honours ‘brought into question’ Lords appointments process

PA Wire

Boris Johnson’s controversial resignation honours list has “brought into question” the current appointments system for creating new peers, according to a House of Lords report.

A cross-party committee of senior peers said the former prime minister “showed no interest” in reducing the number of peers during his three years in office and that the number of new appointments he made “far exceeded” the target set by the upper House.

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