Sir Keir Starmer and Rossendale Council leader Cllr Alyson Barnes in Rawtenstall SIR Keir Starmer said on visit to East Lancashire today that Boris Johnson could clear up questions over who initially paid for the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat in 30 seconds with a straight answer. The Labour leader was in Rawtenstall on a local election campaign visit as pressure piled up on the Prime Minister over the £200,000 revamp and whether he said would rather see bodies pile high than take the country into a third lockdown. The Electoral Commission believes the Conservative Party may have broken the law over the flat renovations amid reports the costs were initially covered by donations and has launched an investigation.
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28 Apr 2021
The leaders of six opposition parties in the House of Commons are accusing Boris Johnson of “a consistent failure to be honest” – a charge the Prime Minister denies.
Who gets to decide whether someone in power is guilty of lying? And what penalties are in place for those who are found to have deliberately misled parliament or the public?
Code breaking?
In a joint letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons, the leaders of the Greens, SNP, Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru, SDLP and Alliance parties in Westminster refer to two codes of conduct that UK politicians are supposed to follow: the Nolan principles and the Ministerial Code. Both stress the importance of being truthful.
Boris Johnson has sparked fury by rejecting a sleaze watchdog’s call for his new independent ethics adviser to be given the power to launch investigations into ministerial wrongdoing. And the prime minister indicated that ministers who breach their code of conduct will no longer automatically face the sack - a practice he condemned as “disproportionate”. New terms of reference for the post of independent adviser, published as the Queen’s former.