Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeBoris Johnson has rewarded loyal Tory politicians and staffers with gongs in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Brexiteer and former business minister Andrea Leadsom gets a damehood in the list. Ms Leadsom resigned as leader of the House of Commons in 2019 amid a backlash against Theresa May's Brexit plan. A string of Tory political staff, including No10 policy advisor Aislinn Rea, who is awarded an OBE as is Simon Burton, an aide to the Tory Chief Whip. Anne Longfield, the former Children’s Commissioner, gets a CBE, despite leaving her post with a stinging rebuke of Mr Johnson’s “levelling up” plans.

Source: Daily Mirror June 11, 2021 21:22 UTC