{"id":55247,"date":"2026-06-24T14:15:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/donaldson-to-give-up-knighthood-and-seat-on-privy-council\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T14:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:15:04","slug":"donaldson-to-give-up-knighthood-and-seat-on-privy-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/donaldson-to-give-up-knighthood-and-seat-on-privy-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Donaldson to give up knighthood and seat on Privy Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former DUP leader and now convicted child abuser Jeffrey Donaldson has asked for his knighthood to be forfeited.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has also tendered his resignation from the Privy Council with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The moves were confirmed in a statement issued by his solicitor John McBurney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It read: &#8220;I have this afternoon issued a letter signed by Jeffrey Donaldson to the Cabinet Office indicating a request to renounce and forfeit his knighthood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c04yrvzkdqqo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Donaldson was found guilty of 18 counts of sex abuse, <\/a>including one count of rape, which he committed against two women when they were children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have this afternoon issued a letter signed by Jeffrey Donaldson to the Privy Council office tendering his resignation from the privy council with immediate effect,&#8221; the statement continued.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx24718vxlvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former DUP leader and now convicted child abuser Jeffrey Donaldson has asked for his knighthood to be forfeited. He has also tendered his resignation from the Privy Council with immediate effect. The moves were confirmed in a statement issued by his solicitor John McBurney. It read: &#8220;I have this afternoon issued a letter signed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1683,15175,1138,7743,15690,9941],"class_list":["post-55247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-council","tag-donaldson","tag-give","tag-knighthood","tag-privy","tag-seat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55249,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55247\/revisions\/55249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}