Come up, Sir Jacob! Rees-Mogg included as Boris Johnson honours listing launched

Jacob Rees-Mogg has been included in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours listing, which was launched in full this night.

The former Brexit minister was awarded the honour for political and public service.

Conservative MPs Michael Fabricant and Conor Burns additionally recieved knighthoods, whereas Andrea Jenkyns and Priti Patel obtained Damehoods.

Rishi Sunak is assumed to have moved to forestall a by-election disaster by blocking two out of 4 nominations Mr Johnson had submitted to raise Tory MP allies to the House of Lords.

Alok Sharma – the previous COP26 President – and Nadine Dorries – the ex-Culture Secretary in Boris Johnson’s authorities have been nowhere to be seen on the honours listing.

In a shock resolution this afternoon, Ms Dorries introduced she can be stepping down as an MP with “immediate effect”.

She informed Talk TV that “something significant did happen” to vary her thoughts, after initially saying she didn’t need to set off a by-election in her native constituency.

Announcing her resignation on Twitter, Ms Dorries mentioned: “I have today informed the chief whip that I am standing down as the MP for Mid Bedfordshire, with immediate effect”.

This came just hours after she said she did not want to trigger a by-election.

Speaking to Talk TV, she explained: “I am unable to reveal all the pieces. Something important did occur to vary my thoughts.

“I’m not going to go blabbing about what happened. I need to process things.

“Something did do and I feel it is for one of the best.”

Ms Dorries denied Mr Sunak had blocked her appointment to the House of Lords.

She gained a 24,664 robust majority in 2019 in Mid Bedfordshire however with Labour up to now forward within the polls, any by-election will probably be a check for Mr Sunak’s Government.