Rishi Sunak ridiculed for his ‘confusion’ over failing to declare wife’s shares

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The Prime Minister ‘inadvertently’ broke the MP’s code of conduct due to ‘confusion’

The Prime Minister has been brutally ridiculed after the parliament’s standards commissioner declared he had ‘inadvertently’ broken the MPs’ code of conduct, for failing to declare his wife’s shares in a childcare company set to benefit from government policy.

Concerns over shares Akshata Murty held in the childcare company Koru Kids were raised back in April, when the company was listed as one of six childminder agencies in the Tory’s pilot childminder incentive.

Sunak supposedly got ‘confused’ over government rules so failed to declare his interests which led to the conclusion by the parliamentary commissioner for standards, Daniel Greenberg, that he had ‘inadvertently’ broken the rules.

His ‘confusion’ was around the difference between registering and declaring his interests, with the inquiry stating that no further action will be taken.

However, his ‘inadvertent’ rule breaking to the financial benefit of his family has raised many eyebrows. With public figures pointing to a wider theme of Tory MPs excusing themselves from misconduct.

https://leftfootforward.org/2023/08/rishi-sunak-ridiculed-for-his-confusion-over-failing-to-declare-wifes-shares/

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Rishi Sunak’s Many Failures to Fully Declare his Conflicts of Interests

The claim that the PM’s failure to declare his wife’s investment in a childcare company subsidised by his Government was ‘inadvertent’ is open to question

Such ‘confusion’ about what interests the Prime Minister needs to declare appears to be a regular occurrence for the Prime Minister, however.

Here’s all the other times Rishi Sunak has appeared ‘confused’ about which conflicts of interests he should and shouldn’t publicly declare.

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