Liz Truss honors loyalists and Brexiteers in resignation honors list

Liz Truss rewarded those personally loyal to her, including Ruth Porter, her former deputy chief of staff. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Liz Truss has awarded Brexiteers and those personally loyal to her peerages and other honors in her long-awaited list of resignation awards.

The former Prime Minister has reportedly nominated 14 people — one for every three and half days she spent in No 10, but only 11 of them were approved by the appointment commissioners.

Matthew Elliott, the former chief executive of Vote Leave, and John Moynihan, her ex chairman, both receive life peerages in the list presented by Ms Truss in March.

The list, short compared to the 45 people honored by Boris Johnson when he left Downing Street, includes the peerage of 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 Committee appears to have blocked a peerage for Mark Littlewood, the outgoing head of the Institute of Economic Affairs, the think tank that backed her ill-fated mini-budget last autumn.

Mr Littlewood was reported to have been nominated for a peerage, but his name was not shortlisted.

Ms Truss's close friend Jackie Doyle-Price, MP for Thurrock, who was Minister of State for Industry for six weeks During her time, the Prime Minister becomes a lady, as does the writer Shirley Conran, recognized by the former Prime Minister for creating the non-profit organization Maths Anxiety Trust.

Alec Shelbrooke MP, another Truss supporter who briefly served as her junior defense secretary, is knighted, while her former special advisers Sophie Jarvis and Shabbir Merali receive OBEs and her former parliamentary private secretaries Robert Butler , MP, and Suzanne Webb, MP, receive Orders of the British Empire.

David Hills, chairman of Ms Truss's Conservative association in her south-west Norfolk constituency, has been awarded an MBE.

Ms Truss said she was «delighted that these Conservative champions of freedom, limited government and a proud and sovereign Britain have been duly honoured.»

Matthew Elliott, former chief executive of Vote Leave, has been given a life peerage. Photo: Sean Jackson/Alamy

But Jonathan Ashworth, Labour's shadow cabinet minister, said the resignation honors list was «positive evidence of Rishi Sunak's weakness» because he was «nodding through those tarnished gongs». Mr Ashworth described them as a reward for Conservative failures.

A Government source said: “Every past Labor Prime Minister has published a dissolution or resignation list. The agreement is that the sitting prime minister does not block proposals from political peers of others.”

In addition, Sajid Javid, the former chancellor, was knighted in the New Year's honors, which are bestowed by the king. on the advice of Mr Sunak.

His resignation, quickly followed by Mr Sunak's, ended Mr Johnson's premiership and ultimately paved the way for Mr Sunak to enter Number 10.

Sir Sajid, who steps down at the next general election, was knighted on Mr Sunak's recommendation after holding six cabinet posts, including home secretary and chancellor, and becoming the first British Asian to hold a top government job.< /p> Dame Margaret Beckett will become a Dame Grand Cross after being awarded the title of Dame Commander in 2013. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Labour Dame Margaret Beckett, who retires at the next election after 40 years representing Derby South, during which she was the first female Foreign Secretary, will become a Dame Grand Cross when how she became a lady commander in 2013.

Siobhan McDonagh, a staunch Labor Party member of Parliament since 1997, becomes a dame. Her sister Margaret McDonagh, who died earlier this year, was the Labor Party's first female general secretary.

She said being notified of the award was a «little surprise» and she thought her late sister «would be proud of the work I've done over the last 26 years as MP for Mitcham and Morden… the place where we were born and raised.»

Yvonne Fovargue, MP for Makerfield, who sits on the Privileges and Standards Committees, receives an OBE, and her Labor Party colleague Marvin Rees, the mayor of Bristol, receives an OBE.

Mark Garnier, the Conservative member who represents Wyre Forest, also received title of the Order of the British Empire. was made an OBE, as was Maggie Troup, MP for Erewash, who served as Vaccines Minister between 2021 and 2022.