The Government’s ethics chief has “serious concerns” about Boris Johnson’s plan to neuter Britain’s election watchdog, Michael Gove has been warned.
Lord Evans, who chairs the Committee on Standards in Public Life, wrote to the Levelling Up Secretary over plans to allow Number 10 to set the “strategic direction” for the Electoral Commission.
He said his committee remained “deeply troubled” that the changes would put our democratic system at risk - adding they would “give the government of the day, whatever its political complexion, the opportunity to exert influence on the way the Commission operates.”
