Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list in full as key allies given peerages, damehoods and knighthoods
Boris Johnson has released his full resignation honours list, a tradition granted to outgoing prime ministers.
He has named aides involved in organising parties at Number 10 during lockdown, but left out some of his key allies.
Below is the full list of people who were named by Mr Johnson:
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Peerages:
- Shaun Bailey – Conservative member of the London Assembly and former London mayoral candidate
- Benjamin Gascoigne – Former political secretary and deputy chief of staff
- Benjamin Houchen – Tees Valley Mayor
- Ross Kempsell – Political director of the Conservative Party and Director of the Conservative Research Department
- Charlotte Tranter Owen – Former special adviser
- Kulveer Singh Ranger – Formerly Director of Transport for Boris Johnson while Mayor of London
- Daniel Rosenfield – Former Downing Street Chief of Staff
Shaun Bailey was among seven nominations for peerages
Damehoods:
- Andrea Jenkyns MP – Former Assistant Whip and Minister for Skills. For political and public service;
- Amanda Milling MP – Former Minister without Portfolio. For political and public service;
- Priti Patel MP – Former Home Secretary. For political and public service;
- Ann Sindall – Personal Assistant to Boris Johnson. For political and public service;
- Michelle Williams-Walker – Former Special Adviser and Head of Operations for the Prime Minister. For political and public service.
Priti Patel has been nominated for a damehood
Knighthoods:
- Conor Burns MP – Former Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office. For political and public service;
- Simon Clarke MP – Former Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Chief Secretary to the Treasury. For political and public service;
- Benjamin William Elliot – Former Co-Chair of the Conservative Party. For political and public service;
- Michael Fabricant MP – Conservative MP for Lichfield. For political and public service;
- William John Lewis – Political Adviser to Boris Johnson MP. For political and public service;
- Jacob Rees-Mogg MP – Former Minister of State for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency. For political and public service.
Order of the Bath:
- Martin Reynolds – Former Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. For public service.
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire:
- Guto Harri – Former Director of Communications at Downing Street and London City Hall. For political and public service;
- Rosemary Bate-Williams – Former Press Secretary to the Prime Minister. For political and public service;
- David Joseph Blair – Former Foreign Affairs Speechwriter to the Prime Minister and Former Chief Foreign Correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. For public service;
- Colin Cromarty Bloom – Former Faith Engagement Adviser to the Prime Minister. For political and public service;
- Henry Charles Rixar Cook – Former Special Adviser to the Prime Minister. For political and public service;
- Jack Doyle – Former Downing Street Director of Communications. For political and public service;
- Roisha Maria Hughes – Former Principal Private Secretary to the Mayor of London. For public service;
- Ray Arthur Lewis – Former Deputy Mayor of London. For political and public service.
Guto Harri, Boris Johnson’s former director of communications
Officers of the Order of the British Empire:
- David Bruno John Canzini – Former Political Adviser to the Prime Minister. For political and public service;
- Samantha Helen Cohen CVO – Former Director of the Office of the Prime Minister. For political and public service;
- Alexander Karczewski Crowley – Former Political Adviser to the Prime Minister. For political and public service;
- Rebecca Rose Haggar-Kaikitis – Councillor, London Borough of Hillingdon. For political and public service;
- Samantha Geraldine Harrison – Former interim Permanent Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the Office of the Prime Minister. For public service;
- Benjamin Robert Mallet – Former Strategy Director for the General Election and London Campaign Director. For political and public service;
- Robert Mark Raymond Oxley – Former Press Secretary at Downing Street. For political and public service;
- Daniel James Ritterband – Former Head of the Mayor of London Campaign. For political and public service;
- Sarah Elizabeth Rebecca Vaughan-Brown – Former Personal Adviser to Carrie Johnson. For political and public service.
- Dr William Gerald Winter Warr – Senior Vice President, Global Health Strategy at BioNTech, former Senior Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Health, Social Care and Life Sciences. For political and public service;
- Catherine Grace Rostron OBE – Senior Parliamentary Assistant and Special Adviser to Boris Johnson. For political and public service.
(L-R) Samantha Cohen, Guto Harri and David Canzini
Members of the Order of the British Empire:
- Kelly Jo Dodge – Long-time Parliamentary hairdresser. For Parliamentary service;
- Andrea Laybourne – Former Parliamentary Secretary to Boris Johnson. For political and public service;
- Richard John Mark – Senior Parliamentary Assistant to Boris Johnson. For political and public service;
- Gregory Alexander Munro – Senior Assistant and Adviser to Boris Johnson. For political and public service;
- Alexander Joseph Bryan Simpson – Former Parliamentary and Constituency Secretary to Boris Johnson. For political and public service;
- Lynda Teresa Summers – Former London Borough of Hillingdon. For public service.
US president-elect Donald Trump has suggested Israel and Hamas could agree a Gaza ceasefire by the end of the week.
Talks between Israeli and Hamas representatives resumed in the Qatari capital Doha yesterday, after US President Joe Biden indicated a deal to stop the fighting was “on the brink” on Monday.
A draft agreement has been sent to both sides. It includes provisions for the release of hostages and a phased Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza.
Qatar says Israel and Hamas are at their “closest point” yet to a ceasefire deal.
Two Hamas officials said the group has accepted the draft agreement, with Israel still considering the deal.
An Israeli official said a deal is close but “we are not there” yet.
More than 46,500 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its ground offensive in the aftermath of the 7 October attacks, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry.
Read more:
What’s in the proposed deal?
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on beachfront cafe in Deir al Balah. Pic: Reuters
Biden hails possibility of agreement
President Biden said it would include a hostage release deal and a “surge” of aid to Palestinians, in his final foreign policy speech as president.
“So many innocent people have been killed, so many communities have been destroyed. Palestinian people deserve peace,” he said.
“The deal would free the hostages, halt the fighting, provide security to Israel, and allow us to significantly surge humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians who suffered terribly in this war that Hamas started.”
Qatari mediators have sent Israel and Hamas a draft proposal for an agreement to halt the fighting.
Analysis:
Deal might be close, but there are many unanswered questions
Pic: Reuters
Trump: ‘We’re very close’
President-elect Donald Trump has also discussed a possible peace deal during a phone interview with the Newsmax channel.
“We’re very close to getting it done and they have to get it done,” he said.
“If they don’t get it done, there’s going to be a lot of trouble out there, a lot of trouble, like they have never seen before.
“And they will get it done. And I understand there’s been a handshake and they’re getting it finished and maybe by the end of the week. But it has to take place, it has to take place.”
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Israeli official: Former Hamas leader held up deal
Speaking on Tuesday as negotiations resumed in Qatar, an anonymous Israeli official said that an agreement was “close, but we are not there”.
They accused Hamas of previously “dictating, not negotiating” but said this has changed in the last few weeks.
“Yahya Sinwar was the main obstacle for a deal,” they added.
Sinwar, believed to be the mastermind of the 7 October attacks, led Hamas following the assassination of his predecessor but was himself killed in October last year.
Under Sinwar, the Israeli official claimed, Hamas was “not in a rush” to bring a hostage deal but this has changed since his death and since the IDF “started to dismantle the Shia axis”.
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Biden: ‘Never, never, never, ever give up’
Iran ‘weaker than it’s been in decades’
Yesterday, President Biden also hailed Washington’s support for Israel during two Iranian attacks in 2024.
“All told, Iran is weaker than it’s been in decades,” the president said.
Mr Biden claimed America’s adversaries were weaker than when he took office four years ago and that the US was “winning the worldwide competition”.
“Compared to four years ago, America is stronger, our alliances are stronger, our adversaries and competitors are
weaker,” he said.
“We have not gone to war to make these things happen.”
The US president is expected to give a farewell address on Wednesday.
A draft ceasefire deal on the table between Israel and Hamas would see 33 hostages set free and a phased withdrawal of IDF forces from parts of Gaza.
President Joe Biden said an agreement to stop the fighting was “on the brink” and high level negotiations between the two sides resumed in Qatar on Tuesday.
The deal would see a number of things happen in a first stage, with negotiations for the second stage beginning in the third week of the ceasefire.
It would also allow a surge in humanitarian aid into Gaza, which has been devastated by more than a year of war.
Details of what the draft proposal entails have been emerging on Tuesday, reported by Israeli and Palestinian officials.
Relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages hold photos of their loved ones during a protest on 8 January. Pic: AP
Hostages to be returned
In the first stage of the potential ceasefire, 33 hostages would be set free.
These include women (including female soldiers), children, men over the age of 50, wounded and sick.
Israel believes most of these hostages are alive but there has not been any official confirmation from Hamas.
In return for the release of the hostages, Israel would free more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
People serving long sentences for deadly attacks would be included in this but Hamas fighters who took part in the 7 October attack would not be released.
An arrangement to prevent Palestinian “terrorists” from going back to the West Bank would be included in the deal, an anonymous Israeli official said.
Read more:
A timeline of events since the 7 October attacks
The hostages who still haven’t returned home
Smoke billows as buildings lie in ruin in Beit Hanoun in Gaza. Pic: Reuters
Phased Israeli withdrawal from Gaza
The agreement also includes a phased withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, with IDF troops remaining in the border perimeter to defend Israeli border towns and villages.
Security arrangements would be implemented at the Philadelphi corridor – a narrow strip of land that runs along the border between Egypt and Gaza – with Israel withdrawing from parts of it after the first few days of the deal.
The Rafah Crossing between Egypt and Gaza would start to work gradually to allow the crossing of people who are sick and other humanitarian cases out of Gaza for treatment.
Unarmed North Gaza residents would be allowed to return to their homes, with a mechanism introduced to ensure no weapons are moved there.
“We will not leave the Gaza Strip until all our hostages are back home,” the Israeli official said.
What will happen to Gaza in the future?
There is less detail about the future of Gaza – from how it will be governed, to any guarantees that this agreement will bring a permanent end to the war.
“The only thing that can answer for now is that we are ready for a ceasefire,” the Israeli official said.
“This is a long ceasefire and the deal that is being discussed right now is for a long one. There is a big price for releasing the hostages and we are ready to pay this price.”
The international community has said Gaza must be run by Palestinians, but there has not been a consensus about how this should be done – and the draft ceasefire agreement does not seem to address this either.
In the past, Israel has said it will not end the war leaving Hamas in power. It also previously rejected the possibility of the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited governing powers in the West Bank, from taking over the administration of Gaza.
Since the beginning of its military campaign in Gaza, Israel has also said it would retain security control over the territory after the fighting ends.
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