Boris Johnson attempt flood lords with dozens of new members can be ripped off. The Lord Speaker warns today that prime ministers plans risk undermining “public confidence in our parliamentary system”.
Lord McFall of Alluit wrote to two candidates applying for prime minister Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, urging them not to follow Johnson’s approach, which saw government retracted in nepotism scandals.
Senior sources in Whitehall said the House of Representatives of Lords Appointment Commission (Holac), body responsible for checking peers, kept up Johnson plans. McFall talking to Lord Norton. of Louth, fellow conservative and constitutional expert, on his private bill of a member who seeks give Holaku’s legal powers and to prevent future prime ministers