The Latest Breaking News from Lords

Time for a quick quiz. What links Nadine Dorries, lockdown-rule-flouting London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey and David Ross, a Tory donor embroiled in a scandal after funding a prime ministerial holiday to Mustique. If you answered, “They are all rumoured to appear on Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list,” give yourself…

John McFall, now Baron McFall of Alcluith, served as Dumbarton’s MP between 1987 and 2010, before moving into the House of Lords.

The former prime minister has asked multiple Conservative MPs to hold off on their peerage so they do not trigger by-elections.

The scandals pile so high the Tories hope we can’t keep track of them. But outside the walls of Westminster, anger is mounting, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

REPORTS that Boris Johnson has asked four Tory MPs to delay taking up peerages so that the party can avoid losing by-elections is "manipulation…

Labour urged Rishi Sunak to block the Prime Minister rewarding cronies and a Tory donor - as he tries to dodge a by-election humiliation by letting four MPs DELAY taking up their seats

Boris Johnson asked MPs he has nominated for peerages to delay taking them up so they do not trigger by-elections

Jack was appointed Secretary of State for Scotland in 2019 and was a dogged supporter of the former prime minister throughout the PartyGate scandal.

But Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride says it would be ‘very difficult’ to get political consensus on any possible shake-up.