Should Mo Farah get his knighthood removed?

There was no real fracture to chase in this one, and that absence is the story: across every age group from teenagers to pensioners, and across both men and women in almost identical proportion, the chamber converged on keeping Farah's knighthood, rejecting the idea by two to one or more in every slice of the data.

The closest thing to a divide was generational, and it ran the "wrong" way for anyone expecting youthful severity — the youngest and oldest voters were actually among the least sympathetic to stripping the honour, while those in their forties were marginally the most open to it, though even there opposition still ran two to one. That flatness across cohorts suggests the question read less as a culture-war flashpoint than as a judgement on intent: Farah's deceit arose from childhood trafficking, not personal gain, and voters of every stripe seemed to draw that distinction instinctively.

The case sits alongside Britain's uneven history of honours forfeiture, where knighthoods have been stripped for fraud, sanctions and criminal convictions but rarely for private lies told in survival, and this vote suggests the public broadly endorses that line rather than wanting it redrawn.

Where the honours system usually splits opinion along predictable lines of class, politics or generation, here almost nobody wanted to be the one demanding a knight give back his knighthood for having once, as a frightened child, lied to stay safe.