Liz Truss has rewarded Brexiteers and those personally loyal to her with peerages and other awards in her long-awaited resignation honours list.
The former prime minister was reported to have nominated 14 people – one for every three and a half days of her stay in No 10 – but only 11 were approved by the appointments commissioners.
Matthew Elliott, the former chief executive of Vote Leave, and Jon Moynihan, its former chairman, both receive life peerages in the list, submitted by Ms Truss in March.
The list, brief compared with the 45 people honoured by Boris Johnson when he left Downing Street, includes a peerage for Ruth Porter, who was Ms Truss’s deputy chief of staff during her 49-day tenure as Prime Minister.
But the House of Lords appointments commission appears to have blocked a peerage for Mark Littlewood, the outgoing head of the Institute for Economic Affairs, a think tank that had supported her ill-fated mini-Budget last autumn.
Mr Littlewood was reported to have been nominated for a peerage, but his name did not make the final list.
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Ms Truss’s close friend Jackie Doyle-Price, the MP for Thurrock who was minister of state for industry for six weeks during her premiership, is made a Dame, as is the novelist Shirley Conran, recognised by the ex-PM for founding the non-profit Maths Anxiety Trust.
Alec Shelbrooke MP, another Truss loyalist who served briefly as a junior defence minister under her, is knighted, while her former special advisers Sophie Jarvis and Shabbir Merali are given CBEs and her former parliamentary private secretaries Robert Butler MP and Suzanne Webb MP receive OBEs.
David Hills, Ms Truss’s Conservative association chairman in her South West Norfolk constituency, received an MBE.
Ms Truss said she was “delighted these champions for the conservative causes of freedom, limited government and a proud and sovereign Britain have been suitably honoured”.
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