Jez Butterworth turned down OBE over government’s EU Referendum pledge
He joins a list of celebrities who have rejected honours.
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Playwright Jez Butterworth has revealed he rejected an OBE after David Cameron promised to hold the EU Referendum.
The Jerusalem creator, 48, told The Sunday Times he turned down the honour “because I wasn’t going to take a f****** OBE off the Conservative government, which was about to hold this f****** referendum”.
In 2013 when he was Prime Minister, Cameron promised to hold a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union. He repeated the pledge during the 2015 General Election campaign and included it in the Conservative Party’s manifesto.
When he was alive David Bowie turned down a knighthood and Paul Weller had previously rejected a CBE.
