Conservative MP Connor Burns has whip suspended for behaviour at Conference

[_Stefan_Kuntz]

Truss has sacked Conor Burns from being a Trade Minister.

[howoldboy]

Truss has sacked Conor Burns from being a Trade Minister.

"Burns was a close ally of Boris Johnson as one of his inner circle who helped him through the various scandals that beset his premiership.

Burns was a Northern Ireland minister before Liz Truss made him trade minister in September.

He previously had to resign as a trade minister in 2020 after being found to have used his position to try to intimidate a member of the public.

The senior Tory was found by the standards committee to have made a series of veiled threats while attempting to intervene in his father’s dispute over a loan."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...box=1665157357

[howoldboy]

Mystery MP who walked in on Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds in ‘compromising situation’ revealed.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...13988.html?amp

[_Stefan_Kuntz]

Conor Burns will be little distressed by his dismissal from Cabinet. He is included in Boris Johnson's Resignation Honours list. He will become Lord Burns. The House Of Lords is the best club in London. Their Lordships just have to turn up to get an allowance of £350 per day. They get travel allowance. Their allowances are not liable for income tax. They get heavily subsidised food and drink from the wide variety of cafes / bars / restaurants etc on the premises.

He will of course cease to be an MP and there will be a by-election.

[howoldboy]

In just three years, Boris Johnson has already made appointments to the House of Lords equivalent to 10% of its current size – appointing 86 new peers to a house which now totals more than 800. His reported plans to add an unusually large number of peers in his resignation honours list would further swell a chamber that is already, infamously, second only in size to the Chinese National People’s Congress.

https://www.instituteforgovernment.o...nation-honours