Keir Starmer: I won’t hand out resignation honours if I become PM

‘The prime minister wants to lead. So he has to come to parliament and vote in this debate this afternoon to show where he stands on this issue,’ says Keir Starmer. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Keir Starmer has ruled out ever producing a resignation honours list, as he urged Rishi Sunak to “show leadership” by attending and voting in Monday’s debate about the report that found Boris Johnson had misled parliament.

Speaking in Edinburgh on Monday morning before a speech on energy, the Labour leader accused the UK prime minister of weakness for waving through Johnson’s long and increasingly controversial resignation honours list.