What has happened to Boris Johnson’s long-delayed resignation honours list?

Andrew Grice on why the former PM’s rumoured comeback matters in the row over knighthoods and peerages

Boris Johnson at the Global Soft Power Summit last week (Reuters)

A wrangle over the list of honours Boris Johnson is allowed to announce as a departing prime minister has dragged on for several months.

Why has it proved controversial?

Johnson’s proposed list provoked controversy because it was said to include about 100 names – more than David Cameron’s 59 nominations, Theresa May’s 51, John Major’s 50 and Margaret Thatcher’s 42.