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.