Boris Johnson accuses Rishi Sunak of ‘talking rubbish’ over honours list

Rishi Sunak says Boris Johnson asked him to bend the rules in order to get peerages for his mates – something which Sunak says he refused to do.

Boris Johnson’s reaction was to go on the attack in the bluntest possible terms – igniting a row as public as it is damaging for the image of the party trying to convince voters that chaos and infighting have given way to stability.