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To: The Honours Committee
Make Honours independent of the Prime Minister
This campaign has ended.
Change the Honours system to consideration only by an independent committee without the present reference to the Prime Minister.
Why is this important?
Every year we have a tawdry process of the Prime Minister using honours for influence and to reward friends and donors to their party. Celebrating people who do important work for others in public service, the business/charity sectors and popular figures in the arts, sport and media is important and the main purpose of having an honours system. Political interference devalues the reason for having honours.
There is no reason why an independent committee could not ensure appropriate balance in the awarding of peerages where the recipient has a declared political allegiance.
