Peerages for Boris Johnson’s junior cronies prove why Lords reform is long overdue 🖊️ paulwaugh via ipaperviews
took his seat in the House of Lords today, the timing could not have been more apt.were finally, formally exorcising Boris Johnson’s ghost from the Commons, his spirit lived on down the other end of Parliament as his close aide was installed as an unelected peer.
And Kempsell’s ennoblement was just the latest from Johnson’s resignation “dishonours” list, following the introduction to the red benches earlier in the week ofBailey, the former London mayoral candidate, is still the subject of police inquiries after he and others partied at Tory campaigns HQ during lockdown. At 51, Bailey is a positive greybeard compared to Kempsell, who at 31 has become the youngest peer in history .
However individually talented either may be, what makes Kempsell and Owen’s youth and inexperience all the more striking is that they will become peers for life. Each could easily have 50 more years in Parliament, thanks to the huge prime ministerial patronage used and abused by Johnson.
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