Victoria Jones via PA Wire/PA Images Owen Paterson this week resigned as the MP for North Shropshire. Downing Street has declined to rule out the possibility that Owen Paterson could be handed a peerage in the wake of his resignation. On Friday, the prime minister’s official spokesman refused to rule out Paterson being appointed to the House of Lords. Paterson resigned soon afterwards, saying he would “remain a public servant but outside the cruel world of politics”. Paterson being given a peerage after his resignation from the Commons would be “grotesque and deeply offensive”, Nicola Sturgeon later claimed.

Source: Huffington Post November 06, 2021 04:10 UTC