Sunak says he refused Johnson's honours request because he 'wanted to change politics'

Rishi Sunak, the UK prime minister, has said Boris Johnson asked him to do something he 'didn't think was right' with his resignation honours list. When Sunak was answering questions at a Q&A at London tech week, he said the former PM wanted him to either overrule the House of Lords appointments committee, or to make promises to the MPs offered peerages by Johnson, who wanted to delay their resignations so as not to cause byelections. 'Now, I wasn’t prepared to do that,' Sunak said. 'As I said, I didn’t think it was right. And if people don’t like that, then tough. When I got this job, I said I was going to do things differently because I wanted to change politics,' he said. 'And that’s what I’m doing' Sunak says Boris Johnson asked him to do something he ‘didn’t think was right’ with honours list – UK politics live