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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

Henry Newman
Aug 24, 2024
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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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