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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sam Blewett

Tory civil war enflamed as Sunak accuses Johnson of ‘not right’ peerage demands

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Rishi Sunak has dug into the Tory civil war by accusing Boris Johnson of asking him to take action that “wasn’t right” in discussions over the former prime minister’s honours list.

The Prime Minister said his one-time Conservative ally asked him to “do something I wasn’t prepared to do” by overruling the panel that vets appointments to the House of Lords or to “make promises to people”.

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