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101 Things You Should Know About the UK Tory Government

Thing 58

In the week before Christmas, absentee Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was asked

‘Where have you been?’: Rishi Sunak confronted by reporter over strikes and travel chaos."  (The Independent: 23/12/22)

No, he wasn’t hiding in a fridge. No, he hadn’t gone on holiday. He had been busy vetting candidates for the long vacant post of Ethics Advisor. So who did he choose?  He chose an investment banker of course, a man cut from the same cloth as himself, Sir Laurie Magnus.

But Sir Laurie Magnus isn’t just any old investment banker. He is an investment banker who has donated thousands of pounds to a Conservative MP, Nick Boles. The same Nick Boles who:

“...learns lover's language and puts the £678 cost of lessons on expenses.”  (MailOnline: 09/08.2012)

He is an investment banker who was educated at Eton, and Oxford.

He is an investment banker who had business dealings with the disgraced Robert Maxwell and Sir Philip Green.

Above all, he is an investment banker who has agreed to relinquish the power to launch his own investigations into allegations of ministerial wrongdoing. As Ethics Advisor he can only initiate a probe into alleged misconduct of ministers if asked by Rishi Sunak to do so. In short, he is a toothless lapdog.

So much for the Sunak promise:

“This government will have integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level.” (Rishi Sunak: 25/10/22)

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