Responding to the release of Boris Johnson's resignation honours list, Daniel Bruce, Chief Executive of Transparency International UK, said:

"It is increasingly difficult to justify seats for life in our parliament being routinely handed out by former Prime Ministers – whether they have been rejected by the public or lost the confidence of their own colleagues.

"Worse still, it is nothing short of a scandal that so often these peerages are granted to those who have previously given large sums of money to their political campaigns.

"Any politician aspiring to be a Prime Minister of integrity should publicly reject these exchanges and commit to finally ending this harmful exercise in patronage."