Labour is demanding an investigation into allegations that Priti Patel breached the ministerial code of conduct by lobbying fellow ministers over a PPE contract for a Tory donor and former adviser. Deputy leader Angela Rayner and shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds wrote to the cabinet secretary Simon Case asking him to investigate what they described as a “glaring and flagrant breach” of the code. Documents obtained by the Daily Mail show.
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Priti Patel has been accused of a “flagrant breach” of the ministerial code as she received her first dose of the Moderna vaccine. Labour has urged Cabinet Secretary Simon Case to investigate the Home Secretary over efforts to sway the award of a PPE contract aid to be worth £20 million after being approached by a Tory activist. Ms Patel attempted to apply pressure to Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove in May last year during efforts to secure.