Has a result of the report.
John Redwood: The Chancellor must address the flaws in his misguided and...
Wrong-headed Treasury thinking will leave people paying unnecessarily high as the cost-of-living crisis strikes.
Has a result of the report.
And where’s the proof of the not so independent Independents allegations.
From what I’ve heard Sue Gray wrote to all the people who were going to be mentioned in the report and unless they could give a good reason for them not to be published the names were going to be published. So I would say that the people whose names don’t appear have given a reasonable enough reason to Sue Gray for them not to be published.
Well, we shall see … as we know, extracting the truth from BJ takes a considerable amount of time and effort …
Where does it state that those exact terms?
These are the changes and the reasons and they all seem fair enough to me:
And these two seem to have hit the headlines:
The Prime Minister may also ask the Independent Adviser for advice on the appropriate sanctions in the event that a breach of the Code is determined to have occurred. As both Lord Geidt and the Committee on Standards in Public Life have recommended last year, it is disproportionate to expect that any breach, however minor, should lead automatically to resignation or dismissal. The sanction which the Prime Minister may decide to issue in a given case is for the Prime Minister to determine, but could include requiring some form of public apology, remedial action or removal of ministerial salary for a period. The Ministerial Code has been updated to reflect this.
The Government is also mindful of the need to avoid incentives for trivial or vexatious complaints which may be made for partisan reasons. Such complaints can undermine public confidence in standards in public life rather than strengthen it. The Government must also balance the broader considerations of unelected ‘standards’ processes seeking to remove from office those who hold a political and democratic mandate.
And the media are oh so honest.
I’ve heard John Redwood’s name mentioned quite a lot on Conservative Home.
We’ve not heard from him for awhile.
Whoever it is had better be a Brexiteer otherwise we’ll be heading straight back into the EU’s arms.
That may well be a consequence of Boris being an ass.
Oh I’ve heard him both on LBC and GB News and he sometimes writes for Conservative Home. These are some of his articles:
Wrong-headed Treasury thinking will leave people paying unnecessarily high as the cost-of-living crisis strikes.
The Government needs to trust the people more and resort to rule-making less. This Queen's speech should set that tone.
They have the power to change the law if the old laws get in their way. They can command huge resources of people, money and message.
Jacob Rees-Mogg faces an uphill battle against entrenched attitudes in almost every relevant department.
If interested this is him being interviewed on GB News:
Gathering was said to have taken place on PM’s birthday but not included in Sue Gray’s report
Labour has called for an investigation into leaked text messages suggesting there was a second gathering in Boris Johnson’s Downing Street flat during lockdown, held by his wife, Carrie, on his birthday.
The emergence of new evidence of an event hosted on 19 June 2020, which was not mentioned in the Partygate report by Sue Gray, sparked accusations of a cover-up and calls for No 10 to “come clean”.
It was alleged that a Downing Street aide received a text from Johnson’s wife confirming that she was with two male friends in the flat, where the prime minister later joined them.
The gathering came hours after the birthday celebration held in the cabinet room, for which both Johnsons were fined by police. It is thought to be separate to a third event on Johnson’s birthday with his relatives, which took place in the Downing Street garden and is thought to have adhered to the rules at the time.
How many more “gatherings” …
Three senior aides who are claimed to have lobbied Sue Gray not to publish some names of those attending lockdown parties were named today
Three senior civil servants lobbied Sue Gray not to publish some names of those attending lockdown parties, it was claimed today.
In response, the Whitehall enforcer, who was assembling her Partygate probe report, allegedly told them to “instruct” her to make the changes – signalling publicly that she opposed them, the Sunday Times reported.
The aides were named by the paper as permanent secretary Samantha Jones, Simon Case, the cabinet secretary, and Alex Chisholm, the permanent secretary in the Cabinet Office.
It came as Downing Street was hit with fresh claims that an alleged “Abba party” in the No10 flat was removed from the report.
Downing Street admitted an official saw parts of it before publication.
In the end, several people were named in it, however No10 flatly denied reports in the Sunday Times that the document was “changed by No10” in its final stages – a move that would cast doubt over its independence.
A No10 source said: “It is untrue any- one on the political side saw anything in advance or sought to influence it.”
A draft of the report had referred to music being played from Boris and Carrie Johnson’s Downing Street flat on November 13, 2020, new reports claim.
The draft also said what time the gathering finished, it is claimed – with other parties in No10 carrying on as late as 4am. But neither of these details were in the final report.
There was no party … but there was …
Four in court over unpaid covid fines.
You would think the police would have dropped it.
If fined maybe Bris could pay the fine.
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