They were the dynamic, priapic premiers who guided their country through a pandemic – and the comparisons between Boris Johnson and David Lloyd George don’t stop there. For no man has done more to advance the cause of Lords reform since the days of the ‘Welsh Wizard’ than Johnson. In his seemingly ongoing quest to destroy the Upper House, this morning’s Times reports that the Old Etonian has nominated some 20 names for life peerages. Among them include two youthful aides who, if accepted, would become the youngest life peers ever.
The first is Ross Kempsell, 30, the Tory party’s former political director, whose mooted nomination has caused something of an explosion in Steerpike’s DMs. ‘It makes a mockery of the system’, fumed one former government aide. Kempsell is best known as the TalkRadio journalist who secured the infamous ‘I paint buses’ interview with Boris Johnson, after which the latter decided it was best to avoid a repeat of the experience by, er, hiring him for No.
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