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2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours (Boris Johnson)
The 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours are honours awarded following the September 2022 resignation of the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. Background Following his resignation as Prime Minister in September 2022, Boris Johnson compiled a list of those he thought deserving of honours. This list is different from the Political Honours list announced on 14 October 2022 that had been drawn up and submitted for scrutiny before Johnson's resignation. In June 2023, ''The Times'' reported that incumbent Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had approved the honours list. The honours were published by the Cabinet Office on 9 June 2023 and gazetted on 21 July 2023 (backdated to 9 June). Controversy A disagreement subsequently broke out between Johnson and Sunak, with the BBC reporting that eight of Johnson's nominations were rejected by the House of Lords Appointments Commission. The identity of these eight individuals is uncertain but there is speculation that they include former Cultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Johnson Official Portrait (cropped)
Boris may refer to: People * Boris (given name), a male given name *:''See'': List of people with given name Boris * Boris (surname) * Boris I of Bulgaria (died 907), the first Christian ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, canonized after his death * Boris II of Bulgaria (c. 931–977), ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire * Boris III of Bulgaria (1894–1943), ruler of the Kingdom of Bulgaria in the first half of the 20th century * Boris, Prince of Tarnovo (born 1997), Spanish-born Bulgarian royal * Boris and Gleb (died 1015), the first saints canonized in Kievan Rus * Boris (singer) (born 1965), pseudonym of French singer Philippe Dhondt Arts and media * Boris (band), a Japanese experimental rock trio * ''Boris'' (EP), by Yezda Urfa, 1975 * "Boris" (song), by the Melvins, 1991 * ''Boris'' (TV series), a 2007–2009 Italian comedy series * '' Boris: The Film'', a 2011 Italian film based on the TV series * '' Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson'', a 2006 biography by Andrew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob William Rees-Mogg (born 24 May 1969) is a British politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Somerset since 2010. Now a backbencher, he served as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council from 2019 to 2022, Minister of State for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency from February to September 2022 and Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from September to October 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, Rees-Mogg previously chaired the eurosceptic European Research Group (ERG) from 2018 to 2019 and has been associated with socially conservative views. Rees-Mogg was born in Hammersmith, London. He was educated at Westminster Under School, Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford, where he read history and was president of Oxford University Conservative Association. He went on to work in the City of London and in Hong Kong for Lloyd George Management until 2007, when he co-founded the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Richard Clarke
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Simon Clarke may refer to: *Simon Clarke (footballer) (born 1971), English footballer *Simon Clarke (politician) (born 1984), British Conservative MP *Simon Clarke (cyclist) (born 1986), Australian road and former track cyclist *Simon Clarke (rugby union) (1938–2017), English rugby union player *Simon Clarke of the Clarke baronets *Simon Clarke (sociologist) (1946–2022), English sociologist *Sir Simon Haughton Clarke, 9th Baronet (1764–1832), West Indies merchant See also *Simon Toulson-Clarke, lead singer and founder member of the pop group Red Box *Simon Clark (other) *Clarke (surname) Clarke is a surname which means "clerk". The surname is of English and Irish origin and comes from the Latin . Variants include Clerk and Clark. Clarke is also uncommonly chosen as a given name. Irish surname origin Clarke is a popular surname in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conor Burns
Conor Burns (born 24 September 1972) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bournemouth West since 2010. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Minister of State for Trade Policy from 2019 to 2020 and again in 2022 and Minister of State for Northern Ireland from 2021 to 2022. Born in Belfast, Burns moved to Hertfordshire aged eight. He worked in finance and communications before being elected for Bournemouth West at the 2010 general election. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Owen Paterson from 2010 to 2012, when he resigned due to his opposition to the House of Lords Reform Bill 2012. He served as PPS to Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Boris Johnson, before resigning from the post in 2018 because he wanted to speak more openly on other areas of policy. Following Johnson's appointment as Prime Minister, Burns served as Minister of State for Tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Cash
Sir William Nigel Paul Cash (born 10 May 1940) is a British politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1984. A member of the Conservative Party, he was first elected for Stafford and then for Stone in Staffordshire in 1997. Cash is a prominent Eurosceptic. After his tenth election victory in the 2019 general election, aged 79, Cash became the oldest sitting member of the House of Commons. Cash was the founder of the Maastricht Referendum Campaign in the early 1990s, and is now the elected Chair of the House of Commons' European Scrutiny Committee. He has also served as a vice-president of the Eurosceptic pressure group Conservatives for Britain, and to this day is one of the strongest critics of the European Union from the Conservative Party. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2014 Birthday Honours for political services. Education Cash was born in Finsbury, London, to a political family, which included seven Liberal Members of Parliament, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Robert Rosenfield
Daniel Robert Rosenfield (born May 1977) is a British political adviser and civil servant who served as the Downing Street Chief of Staff from January 2021 to February 2022. Between July 2007 and April 2011, he served as the principal private secretary to chancellors Alistair Darling and George Osborne, and subsequently as a managing director for Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Early life and education Rosenfield was born in Manchester in 1977, and attended Manchester Grammar School from 1988 to 1995, where he studied maths, French and German at A-level. After school, he spent a year in Israel on a kibbutz. Rosenfield's family later moved to London, where they were members of the North Western Reform Synagogue. He later attended University College London, where he read modern European studies from 1996 to 2000, specialising in German and philosophy. Career Rosenfield worked at HM Treasury from 2000 to 2011. In 2005 he was partly responsible for creating a budget for the 2012 L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kulveer Ranger, Baron Ranger Of Northwood
Kulveer Singh Ranger (Punjabi: ਕਲਵੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਰੇਂਜਰ) (born 1975) is an English strategy and communications executive and TechUK board member. Career Ranger became a well known name after he was head hunted to become the Director for Transport Policy by Boris Johnson after Johnson won the Mayoral election in May 2008. His previous experience in implementing the Oyster card system for London was key in him becoming selected by Johnson. In 2011, Ranger became the Director for Environment and Digital London and his work resulted in a record fall in bike thefts in addition to a number of new electric car charging points in London to encourage a higher take up of electric vehicles. He is currently talks on digital transformation and works as a management consultant. He is also a special adviser to UK government on digital strategy. Ranger was on the long list to be the Conservative party candidate for the 2021 London mayoral election. Family and early li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Owen, Baroness Owen Of Alderley Edge
Charlotte Kathryn Tranter Owen, Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge (born 10 May 1993) is a British life peer and former special adviser. She has been a Conservative member of the House of Lords since 2023, and was the youngest recipient of a life peerage at the time of her appointment. Early life and education Charlotte Owen was born on 10 May 1993 to Michael and Kathryn Owen. Owen's mother works for her brother's forklift truck company. Owen grew up in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, and attended Alderley Edge School for Girls, a private school. She graduated from the University of York in 2015 with an upper-second-class honours degree in politics and international relations. According to her LinkedIn profile, Owen worked as an intern for Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne for a month in 2011 before later working in his constituency office in Tatton in 2012. Both assertions were disputed by a senior source who worked in Osborne's office at the time. She was a member of Conserva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Kempsell, Baron Kempsell
Ross John Kempsell, Baron Kempsell (born May 1992) is a British political adviser and life peer. Early life and education Kempsell was born in May 1992. He was educated at The John Henry Newman School in Stevenage and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he wrote for the weekly student newspaper ''Varsity''. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 2013. Career He was formerly a journalist at the right-wing political website ''Guido Fawkes''. In 2019, Kempsell interviewed Boris Johnson during his campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party, in which Johnson declared that he liked to make models of buses to relax. He also worked as a journalist for Times Radio and was a political editor for TalkRadio. He returned to ''Guido Fawkes'' in 2024 as a contributing editor. Having been political director of the Conservative Party, he was appointed director of the Conservative Research Department in 2020. Following Rishi Sunak's unopp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Houchen
Ben Houchen (born 9 December 1986) is an English politician serving as the Tees Valley Mayor since May 2017. A member of the Conservative Party, Houchen represents the five Tees Valley local authority areas of Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar and Cleveland, Hartlepool and Darlington. He also acts as chairman of the Tees Valley Combined Authority, the body that drives economic growth and job creation in the area. As part of his mayoral campaign, Houchen promised to bring Teesside International Airport (then Durham Tees Valley Airport) back into its previous name and public ownership. In December 2018 Houchen announced that a £40 million deal to buy the airport had been reached with The Peel Group. The acquisition was unanimously approved by the Tees Valley Combined Authority Cabinet in January 2019. In 2021, Houchen was re-elected for a second term. Early life Born in Stockton-on-Tees, Houchen grew up in Ingleby Barwick. He attended Conyers School in Yarm before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Gascoigne
Benjamin Alexander Gascoigne, Baron Gascoigne (born 5 March 1983), is a British political adviser and life peer. He served as Political Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2020 and the deputy chief of staff to Prime Minister Boris Johnson from 2021 to 2022. Gascoigne had also been his private secretary when Johnson was Mayor of London, and also served as an adviser when Johnson was Foreign Secretary. He was given a life peerage in the 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours. Biography Gascoigne was educated at Nelson and Colne College, a further education college in Nelson, Lancashire, where he studied A-levels in politics, history and English language. He studied politics at the University of Hull. Following graduation, Gascoigne worked at Pendle Community Credit Union for two years. He then took a job at Conservative Campaign Headquarters, before working on Boris Johnson's campaign to become Mayor of London in 2008. From 2009 to 2015, Gascoign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commons Privileges Committee Investigation Into Boris Johnson
The UK House of Commons Committee of Privileges inquiry into the matter referred on 21 April 2022 on the conduct of Boris Johnson concerns four specific assertions made by the then Prime Minister at Prime Minister's Questions about "the legality of activities in 10 Downing Street and the Cabinet Office under Covid regulations", events commonly referred to as Partygate. The investigation is concerned with whether Johnson misled the Commons when he made these statements. Johnson resigned over the investigation after having been sent a draft copy of the committee's report. The Committee had voted on the final report text and unanimously supported it. They concluded that Johnson had deliberately misled the House, a contempt of Parliament. They said that, had he still been an MP, they would have recommended a 90 day suspension. The report stated that Johnson tried to "rewrite the meaning" of COVID rules "to fit his own evidence" for example that "a leaving gathering or a gathering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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