{"id":82887,"date":"2023-06-12T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/sunak-says-he-refused-johnsons-honours-request-because-he-wanted-to-change-politics\/"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T11:00:55","slug":"sunak-says-he-refused-johnsons-honours-request-because-he-wanted-to-change-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/sunak-says-he-refused-johnsons-honours-request-because-he-wanted-to-change-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunak says he refused Johnson&#8217;s honours request because he &#8216;wanted to change politics&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/QYSxBWHSvUY\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Sunak says he refused Johnson's honours request because he 'wanted to change politics'\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QYSxBWHSvUY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Rishi Sunak, the UK prime minister, has said Boris Johnson asked him to do something he &#8216;didn&#8217;t think was right&#8217; with his resignation honours list. <\/p>\n<p>When Sunak was answering questions at a Q&amp;A at London tech week, he said the former PM wanted him to either overrule the House of Lords appointments committee, or to make promises to the MPs offered peerages by Johnson, who wanted to delay their resignations so as not to cause byelections. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Now, I wasn\u2019t prepared to do that,&#8217; Sunak said. &#8216;As I said, I didn\u2019t think it was right. And if people don\u2019t like that, then tough. When I got this job, I said I was going to do things differently because I wanted to change politics,&#8217; he said. &#8216;And that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing&#8217; <\/p>\n<p> Sunak says Boris Johnson asked him to do something he \u2018didn\u2019t think was right\u2019 with honours list \u2013 UK politics live<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rishi Sunak, the UK prime minister, has said Boris Johnson asked him to do something he &#8216;didn&#8217;t think was right&#8217; with his resignation honours list. 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