Poll shows 54% against Boris Johnson drawing up resignation honours list

Exclusive: House of Lords bursting at seams' and reform is needed, say campaigners

Campaigners have called for an end to unchecked political patronage" as polling found most people oppose plans for Boris Johnson to appoint new peers in the final weeks of his premiership.

Alarm was raised by the Electoral Reform Society over a proposal drawn up by CT Group - a political lobbying firm run by the Conservative adviser Lynton Crosby - for the prime minister to appoint up to 50 new Conservative lawmakers to ram contentious legislation through parliament.