The former skills minister Andrea Jenkyns will be made a dame for “political and public service” despite serving in the role for just three and half months.
Jenkyns is among several Boris Johnson loyalists to receive honours and peerages in the former prime minister’s resignation honours list.
The MP for Morley and Outwood was first made a minister in July 2022 to replace Alex Burghart who was one of a string of ministers to dramatically resign from Boris Johnson’s cabinet last summer.
Jenkyns was first appointed by Johnson as parliamentary under secretary of state (junior minister) for skills, further and higher education. When Liz Truss became prime minister that September, Jenkyns was reappointed as minister for skills. A month later, she was fired and replaced by Robert Halfon by new prime minister Rishi Sunak.
