Two people turned down honours from Liz Truss’s brief stint as prime minister
Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister has nominated 14 people to receive honours – but the list could have been longer.
Liz Truss only managed to last in the top job for 49 days, but despite this she was still able to submit resignation honours.
Currently there are 14 people on her resignation honours list – and at least two people turned down nominations from the former PM, The Times was told.
One of them felt it would be ‘humiliating’ to receive an honour from Truss, while the other said they didn’t feel they deserved it. The identities of the two people who turned down awards are not yet known.
Ms Truss’s resignation honours list nominated four people for life peerages and 12 people for honours like knighthoods, damehoods, OBEs, CBEs and MBEs.
The list equates to one nomination for every three-and-a-half days she spent in the top job.
The nominated life peers are thought to be:
- Sir Jon Moynihan, a big pro-Brexit donor to the Conservative Party
- Matthew Elliott, who ran the Brexit campaign in 2016
- Ruth Porter, Truss’s deputy chief of staff in No 10
- Mark Littlewood, the outgoing head of the Institute of Economic Affairs
Her list supposedly also recognises a ‘handful’ of ‘local community heroes’ in her constituency in Norfolk.
It’s understood Kwasi Kwarteng, the chancellor who oversaw the disastrous mini-budget during Ms Truss’s brief tenure, is not on the list.
A resignation honours list is traditional for those leaving No 10 – but the honours system is already under fire over Boris Johnson’s list of more than 40 awards.
It included seven peerages, including to 30-year-old aide Charlotte Owen who became the youngest ever entrant to the House of Lords.
Opposition parties have called for Ms Truss’s honours to be blocked.
It’s understood she submitted her list to the commission several months ago and the names are still being vetted.
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