Any hope of a ceasefire between Boris and Rishi over the honours row has been well and truly shattered. Boris has just gone on the record to attack Rishi over his claim this morning that Boris asked him to overrule the HOLAC committee:

“Rishi Sunak is talking rubbish. To honour these peerages it was not necessary to overrule HOLAC – but simply to ask them to renew their vetting, which was a mere formality.”

He’s not going down without a serious fight…

Rishi has returned fire on Boris over the ongoing resignation honours saga. During a Q&A session at London Tech Week, Rishi claimed:

“Boris Johnson asked me to do something that I wasn’t prepared to do, because I didn’t think it was right. That was either overrule the HOLAC committee, or make promises to people… now 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…”

Fuel on the fire…