It’s a tradition in the UK. When they leave Downing Street, the British heads of government draw up a “list of honors”, with the names of the people they wish to see ennobled. But on the list of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, one name particularly makes the opposition tick. It is that of his own father, Stanley Johnson, reports the daily The Times Monday.
According The Times, the list of Boris Johnson, who left the government in September, forced to resign after a series of scandals, has a hundred names. It would thus be much longer than that of its predecessors Theresa May and David Cameron, which featured around sixty people.
The information, which has not been confirmed by either Boris Johnson’s entourage or the government, has fueled accusations of nepotism regularly targeting the ruling Conservative Party and in particular the former leader, whose press regularly mentions attempts to return to power.
Accusation of sexual harassment and domestic violence
She greatly angered opposition Labor leader Keir Starmer. “It’s ridiculous,” he said on LBC radio. “Ex-Prime Minister bestows honors on his father – for what service? “That’s classic of a man like Johnson. I think for the public, it’s just absolutely outrageous, ”he criticized.
The presence in this list of Stanley Johnson is all the more shocking since, as mentioned The Timeshe was accused of sexual harassment and also domestic violence against the mother of Boris Johnson in the 1970s. This former member of the European Parliament, who became pro-Brexit, obtained French nationality in May 2022 In 2020, Boris Johnson, then Prime Minister, had already nominated his brother Jo to sit in the House of Lords, the upper house of the British Parliament.
