LONDON: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday said he had not been prepared to overrule recommendations made by a commission which vets nominations to the House of Lords over the list of people recommended by former leader Boris Johnson.

“Boris Johnson asked me to do something that I wasn’t prepared to do,” he said when asked by a reporter at an event in London if he had intervened in the honours process.

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“I wasn’t prepared to do that because I didn’t think it was right, and if people don’t like that then tough.”