Boris Johnson has been named Britain’s new prime minister after winning 66% of a vote of Conservative Party members.

Johnson is the first incoming PM to be an honorary fellow of the RIBA, an award bestowed when he was mayor of London in 2011. Churchill is the only other prime minister who was an honorary fellow, but that was awarded in 1941, while he was in office.

An attempt to have Johnson stripped of the honour – after the Garden Bridge debacle and other concerns about his fitness for office – failed in April. The move by RIBA Council student member Simeon Shtebunaev was triggered by concerns that Johnson would not live up to the RIBA’s new code of conduct. The RIBA said honorary fellows were not bound by the code.

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