In a combative column in the Daily Mail, the former culture secretary suggested she was deliberately blocked from receiving a peerage by 'posh boys' working for Rishi Sunak.
Mr Johnson said:"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."
"In the meeting Boris had with Rishi Sunak - a meeting Number 10 initially denied to journalists had taken place - I was told that the PM had indeed assured Boris that he would, in keeping with convention, sign off the list returned to him from Holac," she wrote. Ms Dorries claimed Mr Forsyth"ensured" her name was not on the list by"failing to pass on vital information" from the vetting body that she needed to agree to stand down from the Commons and join the Lords within six months or face being left off."It is my belief that when Rishi Sunak told Boris Johnson he would sign off the list returned to him by Holac, he was using weasel words," she said.
In response, the prime minister's press secretary said:"As is convention, the prime minister forwarded the former prime minister's peerage list to Holac unaltered.
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