Sunak said Johnson asked him to overrule them, or make promises to people, which he said he refused, adding it was something he wasn’t prepared to do.
Former prime minister Boris Johnson announced he was quitting parliament on Friday over a report from the privileges committee, who were investigating whether he had misled MPs about lockdown parties in downing street.
It came hours after downing street published his resignation honours list without the names of key supporters, including Nadine Dorries, sir Alok Sharma and Nigel Adams.
The house of lord’s appointments commission (holac) has confirmed it rejected eight of the former prime minister’s nominations.
