Two weeks ago, Sky News says Sunak and Johnson met but left with different understandings of the agreement. Johnson thought Sunak had agreed to wave through his nominees whatever Holac said whilst Sunak thought he would agree to whatever Holac recommended.
The list of new peerages did not include eight of Mr Johnson's nominations.
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Sunak: Boris Johnson 'asked me to do something that I wasn't prepared to do'
Rishi Sunak was asked at London Tech Week about this controversy, and there was a rather uncomfortable pause, with laughter and applause from the audience.
In response to the question of whether his predecessor undermined him, Mr Sunak said: "Boris Johnson asked me to do something that I wasn't prepared to do because I didn't think it was right. That was to either overrule the Holac committee or make promises to people.
"I wasn't prepared to do that. As I said, I didn't think it was right. And if people don't like that, then tough."
He added: "When I got this job, I said I was gonna do things differently because I wanted to change politics, and that's what I'm doing."
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