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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Sophie Wingate

Culture Secretary breached governance code in appointing football watchdog chair

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy was found by a probe to have breached the code on public appointments by failing to declare she had received donations from her pick to chair the new football watchdog.

In a letter to Sir Keir Starmer, she apologised for “unknowingly” breaking the rules by not disclosing that David Kogan had given £2,900 to her leadership campaign in the 2020 race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.

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