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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason and Pippa Crerar

Keir Starmer facing scrutiny over failure to establish new ethics watchdog

Keir Starmer speaking at the dispatch box in the House of Commons
Keir Starmer pledged that the new Labour government would ‘establish a new independent ethics and integrity commission to ensure probity in government’. Photograph: House of Commons/PA

No 10 is facing scrutiny over its failure to bring in a new ethics watchdog almost a year after the election, as a new inquiry was launched to examine the seeming lack of progress.

Amid signs that the plans have been kicked into the long grass, parliament’s public administration committee said it was launching an inquiry to push the government on what has happened to its ethics commitments.

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