Boris Johnson asked me to overrule peer vetting, says Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak has accused Boris Johnson of asking him to "overrule" a sheet tasked with vetting his appointments to the House of Lords.

The House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC) has confirmed it rejected 8 of the erstwhile premier minister's nominations.

Mr Sunak said Mr Johnson asked him to overrule them, oregon "make promises to people".

But helium said helium refused, adding it was "something I wasn't prepared to do".

"I wasn't prepared to bash that, I didn't deliberation that was right. And if radical don't similar that, past tough," helium told a tech league successful London.

The involution marks a caller constituent successful an escalating warfare of words implicit Mr Johnson's arguable resignation honours list.

Mr Johnson announced helium was quitting Parliament connected Friday implicit a study from the Privileges Committee, who were investigating whether helium had misled MPs astir lockdown parties successful Downing Street.

It came hours aft Downing Street published his resignation honours database without the names of cardinal supporters, including Nadine Dorries, Sir Alok Sharma and Nigel Adams.

All 3 had been expecting to beryllium appointed to the House of Lords.

Competing claims person present surfaced astir however and wherefore the names were removed.