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Read more Johnson's long-awaited political honours list was published on Friday, rewarding Brexit die-hards and even those implicated in the "Partygate" scandal that contributed to his downfall last year. But its failure to feature several expected names prompted accusations from Johnson's camp of meddling from Sunak and Downing Street before it was submitted. Sunak's spokesman told reporters it was "entirely untrue" that the prime minister or officials removed names from Johnson's list before it was sent to a House of Lords vetting committee. The prime minister himself then lashed out at Johnson, accusing him of asking him to overrule the committee, which rejected eight of his nominations to the unelected upper chamber of parliament. "Boris Johnson asked me to do something that I wasn't prepared to do, because I didn't think it was right," he said at a tech conference in London. "That was to either overrule the Holac committee (House of Lords Appointments Commission), or to make promises to people. "I wasn't prepared to do that. As I said I didn't think it was right, and if people don't like that then tough." Johnson hit back in a statement, saying: "Rishi Sunak is talking rubbish." His resignation honours list -- normally a convention waved through by a prime minister's successor -- has sparked fresh factional in-fighting in the ruling Conservative party. Sunak has sought to reunite the party, which was riven by ideological disputes over Brexit until Johnson's landslide ...

LONDON, June 11 (Reuters) - The world has moved on from former British prime minister Boris Johnson and the governing Conservative Party and the rest of the country do not miss the drama of his period in office, energy minister Grant Shapps said on Sunday. Asked about criticism from Johnson and his allies that he was forced out, Shapps told Sky News: "The world has moved on. He is the one who's removed himself from the current political scene, standing down as a member of parliament." Parliament's privileges committee - the main disciplinary body for lawmakers - had the power to recommend Johnson be suspended from parliament. If the suspension is for more than 10 days, voters in his constituency could have demanded he stood for re-election to continue as their representative. Johnson, who became prime minister in 2019 with a promise to deliver Brexit, saw his premiership cut short last year in part by anger in his own party and across Britain over COVID rule-breaking lockdown parties in his office and residence. His administration's combative and often chaotic approach to governing and repeated scandals exhausted the goodwill of many of his lawmakers. Opinion polls show he is no longer popular with the public at large. "I really like Boris and I worked very closely with him," Shapps told BBC TV. "He had many qualities ... but I think people both in the Conservative Party and outside don't miss the drama of it all." Johnson's former director of communications Guto Harri tol...

20.08 BST Boris Johnson stepping down as an MP with immediate effect and says he is 'bewildered and appalled' at being 'forced out' Boris Johnson is standing down as the Conservative MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, it has been reported. The move by the former prime minister will trigger an immediate by-election. He took the move after the Privileges Committee of the House of Commons reportedly found he misled Parliament & recommended sanction of more than 10 days. Johnson told the Times: “It is very sad to be leaving parliament - at least for now - but above all I am bewildered and appalled that I can be forced out, anti-democratically, by a committee chaired and managed, by Harriet Harman, with such egregious bias”