Johnson expected to appoint allies to Lords in resignation honours list

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Boris Johnson is expected to appoint allies to the House of Lords as part of his customary resignation honours list. His spokesman said on Monday: “It will be a matter for the new Government essentially on the timings, but there’s no fixed time for them at the moment.” Mr Johnson’s predecessor Theresa May’s resignation honours list came about two months after she resigned as prime minister. He wrote in The Guardian in July: “The document proposes that Johnson ride roughshod over every convention and standard of propriety in an effort to secure political nominees who will vote for the Tory Government.” Mr Johnson’s appointments so far have taken the number of members sitting in the Lords to more than 800 – compared with 650 MPs in the House of Commons. Days before leaving office, Mr Johnson came under fire for appointing a “leading crony” to help oversee the appointment of new peers to the Lords, including vetting his resignation honours requests.