Donorgate
The Chancellor seems to have broken the Ministerial Code. The Government needs to get ahead of this - come clean, make more Spads, and launch an investigation. Otherwise things will keep getting worse
In 2021 Rachel Reeves, then shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster stood up in Parliament to quote from the (then) Foreword of the Ministerial Code:
‘“There must be….no misuse of taxpayer money and no actual or perceived conflicts of interest.”’
She went on to say:
‘Those words are from the Prime Minister’s [Boris Johnson’s] foreword to the ministeria…
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