Lord Geidt mildly censures Johnson for not having a more ‘rigorous regard’ for how the flat would be funded. He says that this was unwise He says that the prime minister ‘might reasonably expect’ to be curious about the arrangements
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Matt Hancock committed a ‘technical’ breach of the ministerial code by failing to declare that a family firm -which he has a 20% stake in - had won an NHS contract Lord Geidt says in mitigation that Hancock was unaware of contract and that he acted with ‘integrity throughout’
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Boris Johnson acted ‘unwisely’ by failing to take more of an interest in who was funding refurb of his Downing Street flat, Lord Geidt finds But he castigates officials - who were informed that a Tory donor had paid for it - for not telling the PM, saying he was ‘ill-served’
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Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary, acknowledges the ‘shortcomings’ of officials in failing to tell Boris Johnson that his flat had been paid for by a Tory donor As Geidt acknowledges, however, these officials were ‘managing their own very difficult decision questions’
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All of which leads to a question: Is it really incumbent on officials to tell the Prime Minister that the cost of refurbishing his flat was met by a Tory donor? There’s an argument that Lord Geidt is placing a higher burden of probity on officials than he is on the PM himself
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rubbish. utter utter bollocks
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Who did he think paid for it then?
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He accidentally let someone pay 200k on his behalf? Did he not wonder where the bill went?
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Aye, right. I just nipped out to the shops and when returned somebody, completely unknown to me, had spent £200,000 redecorating my flat. Honest to god. Are there any journalists left in the country.
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So he didn't know who'd funded the tarting up of his flat, his own fucking flat, until he saw it in the papers....pic.twitter.com/zET83aweXK
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