Another month, another resignation honours list. It was a row over Boris Johnson’s peerages that led to Rishi Sunak facing multiple by-elections last month – with one still to follow, should Nadine Dorries ever get round to quitting. But when it comes to Liz Truss’s honours list, the row is not so much about the vetting process that saw Dorries and others knocked off as who would want to be on it in the first place.
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Truss’s rumoured list of 14 appointees (an honour for every three and a half days of her 49-day premiership) is currently thought to be going through vetting. However, some in her team wanted their names off the list well before then. In the final hours of Truss’s time in Downing Street she was caught in meetings with various aides as the different factions debated the merits of the shortest-serving prime minister in history issuing an honours list.
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