Boris Johnson is anticipated to nominate allies to the Home of Lords as a part of his customary resignation honours record.
No particulars have been confirmed up to now, however some names rumoured to be recognised embrace Tradition Secretary Nadine Dorries and the previous Day by day Mail editor Paul Dacre.
Mr Johnson is formally resigning as Prime Minister on Tuesday, handing excessive job to Liz Truss.
It's unclear when his record will likely be launched, with Downing Road saying there's “no mounted time” for the announcement.
His spokesman mentioned on Monday: “It is going to be a matter for the brand new Authorities primarily on the timings, however there’s no mounted time for them for the time being.”
Mr Johnson’s predecessor Theresa Could’s resignation honours record happened two months after she resigned as prime minister.
It's custom for departing prime ministers to create new life peerages, however as these are sometimes handed to political employees and former advisers, they're hardly ever with out controversy.
Mrs Could’s substantial awards for ex-political aides and Tory donors confronted criticism, with Mr Johnson’s record prone to show controversial too.
It has been reported that it might embrace gongs for Lubov Chernukhin, a Russian donor who has spent tens of hundreds to play tennis with Mr Johnson, and the Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross, who organized a luxurious vacation for Mr Johnson and his then-fiancee Carrie Symonds in Mustique in 2019.
One in every of Mr Johnson’s most vocal supporters, Ms Dorries is anticipated to be granted a peerage after she introduced she is standing down as Tradition Secretary following his departure from No 10.
There's additionally hypothesis that Mr Johnson might give his father, Stanley Johnson, a knighthood.
Among the 86 friends Mr Johnson has already appointed in his three-year time period have been contentious, fuelling accusations of cronyism.
These embrace rich Tory donor Peter Cruddas, who confronted cash-for-access allegations as social gathering co-treasurer; newspaper proprietor Evgeny Lebedev, the Russian-born son of a former KGB agent; Zac Goldsmith, whose peerage meant he might retain his position as setting minister after he was ousted as an MP; and his brother Jo Johnson.
Former prime minister Gordon Brown mentioned he had seen plans to nominate as much as 50 new Tory friends to drive Brexit-linked laws by the Lords.
Below the proposals, drawn up by Sir Lynton Crosby’s CT Group, every peer must conform to “signal away” their rights to make a judgment on draft legal guidelines, Mr Brown mentioned.
He wrote in The Guardian in July: “The doc proposes that Johnson experience roughshod over each conference and normal of propriety in an effort to safe political nominees who will vote for the Tory Authorities.”
Mr Johnson’s appointments up to now have taken the variety of members sitting within the Lords to greater than 800 – in contrast with 650 MPs within the Home of Commons.
Additional partisan appointments by the Tories threaten to see the unelected higher chamber balloon even additional to greater than 900 members, Lord Burns, who leads the committee that devised a course to scale back the dimensions of the Lords, warned in July.
Days earlier than leaving workplace, Mr Johnson got here beneath hearth for appointing a “main crony” to assist oversee the appointment of recent friends to the Lords, together with vetting his resignation honours requests.
Author and journalist Harry Mount, the writer of The Wit And Knowledge Of Boris Johnson, will take up the position on the Home of Lords Appointments Fee from September 11.