Honour Nigel, not Michelle

David Cameron’s resignation honours rewarded corruption, dishonesty, lack of principle and failure. Earlier appointments littered the Lords with such political heavyweights as Michelle Mone, an underwear queen, and Karren Brady, a football executive. He is shameless; I hope those who took largely undeserved baubles are not, and will come to appreciate the damage they have done to their reputations by accepting them. Some of us still despise the beneficiaries of Harold Wilson’s “Lavender List” 40 years on.

But with the next list in December Mrs May must settle the question of appropriately rewarding those who helped secure the will of the British people in the recent referendum. Nigel Farage did more than anyone to bring Brexit about, and a knighthood is about the least he deserves. There are others like him. If the honours system won’t recognise such conspicuous achievement, what is it for?