THE Government cannot afford to lose another ethics adviser, the head of the business appointments watchdog has warned.
The warning by Lord Eric Pickles, chair of the independent Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), comes days after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak filled the six-month vacancy by appointing veteran banker and Historic England chair Sir Laurie Magnus.
Lord Geidt and his predecessor Sir Alex Allan both quit the role of adviser on ministers’ interests, with the departure of the former likened to a slow motion “train crash” by the former Tory minister.
