Rishi Sunak surprise honours list announced - from Christopher Nolan to Tory mega-donor
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak doled out damehoods, knighthoods and CBEs to tech experts, Tory MPs and those in the creative industry as he published a surprise list of gongs
Filmmaker Christopher Nolan, Netflix boss Ted Sarandos and a billionaire Tory mega-donor have been handed gongs by Rishi Sunak.
In the surprise honours list, sneaked out before the Easter weekend, Mr Sunak awarded a damehood to Harriett Baldwin, chair of the Treasury select committee, and a knighthood to Food, Farming and Fisheries Minister Mark Spencer. Tory MPs Tracey Crouch and Philip Davies were given a damehood and knighthood respectively.
In a brazen move, Mr Sunak also doled out a knighthood to Egyptian-born billionaire Mohamed Mansour, a Tory mega-donor who gave the party £5million last year.
The tech-obsessed PM handed out knighthoods and CBEs to tech experts including Dr Demis Hassabis, the CEO and co-founder of AI firm Google DeepMind. He also awarded Matthew Clifford, a government adviser on AI and Ian Hogarth, the chair of the AI Safety Institute.
Nolan and his wife Emma Thomas were both awarded a knighthood and damehood respectively for their services to film. It comes just weeks after Nolan won best director at the Oscars for the first time for his film Oppenheimer, which Thomas produced.
Full List of gongs:
Creative Industries Honours
Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Emma Thomas Nolan; Film producer. For Services to Film.
Knight Bachelor
Christopher Nolan CBE; Filmmaker. For Services to Film.
Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Ted Sarandos; Co-Chief Executive Officer of Netflix. For services to Creative Industries
Technology & Artificial Intelligence Honours
Knight Bachelor
Dr Demis Hassabis CBE FRS FREng FRSA; CEO and Co-Founder of DeepMind. For Services to Artificial Intelligence.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Matthew Clifford MBE; Co-Founder of Entrepreneur First, Adviser to His Majesty’s Government on Artificial Intelligence and Chair of Advanced Research and Invention Agency. For Services to Artificial Intelligence.
Ian Hogarth; Chair of the Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute. For Services to Artificial Intelligence
Political Honours
Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Harriett Baldwin MP; Member of Parliament (MP) for West Worcestershire. Formerly Minister of State for Africa and International Development. Currently Chair of the Treasury Select Committee. For Public and Parliamentary Service.
Tracey Crouch CBE MP; Member of Parliament (MP) for Chatham and Aylesford. Formerly Minister for Sport, Civil Society and Loneliness. For Public and Parliamentary Service.
Knight Bachelor
Philip Davies MP; Member of Parliament (MP) for Shipley. For Public and Parliamentary Service.
Mohamed Mansour; Businessman, Philanthropist and Senior Treasurer of the Conservative Party. For Business, Charity and Political Service.
The Rt Hon Mark Spencer MP; Minister of State for Food, Farming and Fisheries and Member of Parliament (MP) for Sherwood. For Public and Parliamentary Service.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Gregory Campbell MP; Member of Parliament (MP) for East Londonderry, and the Democratic Unionist Party Spokesperson for International Development. For Public and Parliamentary Service.
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