Boris Johnson under investigation for £15,000 Caribbean holiday by MP standards watchdog
Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds went to the Caribbean island of Mustique over the 2019/20 New Year break (Getty Images)
Boris Johnson is under investigation by Westminster’s parliamentary watchdog for his £15,000 Caribbean holiday to Mustique with his fiancee Carrie Symonds.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Stone announced today that it was looking at Johnson’s holiday over the 2019/20 New Year period, after an initial saga over who paid for the holiday.
The probe is the second in three weeks into sleaze allegations against Johnson.
The holiday was listed as a “benefit in kind” by the Prime Minister in the MPs’ register of interests, with the donor listed as Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross.
Analysis: Anneliese Dodds sacking was a long time coming
Anneliese Dodds new position is party chair and policy review chief (Getty Images)
Anneliese Dodds’ sacking last night makes her one of the shortest ever serving Labour shadow chancellors, after a little more than 13 months in the role.
She impressed early on as she marked a clear tonal change from the far-left policies of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, before heavy criticism began to fall on her shoulders.
Her new role as party chair and policy review chief is nothing to sneeze at, but she will no longer retain responsibility for shadowing the impossibly popular chancellor Rishi Sunak or setting the party’s economic direction.