Boris Johnson has sparked renewed accusations of nepotism after he chose the author of his “wit and wisdom” book to help oversee the appointment of new associates in the House of Representatives.
Journalist Harry Mount, a former member of the Bringdon Club and author of The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson, will assume a role on the Senate Appointments Committee beginning Sept. 11. The committee is responsible for reviewing all nominations for lords. This includes all of Johnson’s requests for nobility to be granted as part of his resignation honor list.
Independent Members are appointed for five-year non-renewable terms. The government said its role was widely publicized.
Labor Deputy Leader Angela Rayner said: “This is a display of sheer arrogance by Boris Johnson, holding his own powerful allies to the responsibility of stopping cronyism in Parliament.” Instead of tackling the cost of living crisis, the prime minister is using his last days in office to tackle one last desperate bid to give more jobs to the boys.
“Far from promising long-awaited change, the Conservative Party’s continuing candidates are offering the same meanness and self-interest that have defined their government for years.”
Downing Street confirmed Mount’s appointment last Friday in Johnson’s office. there is
Like Johnson, Mount was a member of the all-male Bringdon Club during his time at Oxford University. Mount began writing for The Spectator in 2002, under Johnson’s editing. He also writes a column for Johnson’s former employer, The Daily Telegraph. He is currently editing Oldie magazine.
Mount’s father is Ferdinand Mount, who was an adviser to Margaret Thatcher. He is also the cousin of another former Bullingdon Club member, David Cameron.
A 2007 article on The New Yorker’s Mount states: He enjoys a certain notoriety for rolling down a hill on a portable toilet. “It was like coming out of Dracula’s coffin,” he recalled at a diner near the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mr Johnson has already been criticized for submitting Tory donors to an honorary list of resignations. The names he submitted to the aristocracy reportedly include Conservative donor and co-chairman Ben Elliott, who had business ties to Russian money.
Elliott, whom Johnson also appointed to the board of directors of the V&A, received Tory donations from Akind, a company co-owned by Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of Vladimir Putin’s former finance minister, and billionaire Viktor Fedotov. is recieving.
Other names on the resignation list are believed to include former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre, whom Johnson tried to appoint as chairman of media regulator Obcomm.
Cabinet Office Minister Nicholas True said:
“Harry Mount brings a wealth of experience from his career and can offer much to the House of Lords’ Appointments Committee.
Johnson also appointed his Deputy Chief of Staff, Baroness Simone Finn, to the Public Living Standards Commission as a Conservative Party political appointment to the Commission.
The Ethics Committee, chaired by former MI5 boss Sir Jonathan Evans, said it would “advise the Prime Minister on arrangements for upholding ethical standards of conduct throughout British public life”.
Evans criticized Johnson in June for only partially accepting recommendations by the committee to strengthen the role of independent advisers on ministerial interests, and told lawmakers in January: than that.”
Finn became Johnson’s Deputy Chief of Staff in February 2021 from a role as a non-executive director of the Cabinet Office appointed by Michael Gove in May 2020.
Finn hosted Carrie Johnson’s 30th birthday party at her North London home in March 2018, The Sunday Times reported.
She will join the Commission on November 21, 2022 for a renewed three-year term.
In another appointment, which the government claims to be independent, a former Australian minister who helped establish the much-criticized offshore asylum processing program was named to the UK government’s board overseeing the Rwanda programme. .
Alexander Downer, former Australian Foreign Minister and British High Commissioner, is one of eight appointed to the new oversight board to “provide independent assurance” of the government’s plans.
In his September column for the Daily Mail, Downer supported the backlash at sea, falsely claiming that the “majority” of those crossing the Channel were “economic migrants”. I was appointed to help review the
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