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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Labour asks watchdog to investigate Sunak over wife’s interest in startup fund

Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty on stage at the Conservative party conference
Sunak launched the scheme to help startups – a sector in which his wife is a known investor – despite warnings over value for money. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters

Labour has written to the standards watchdog to ask whether Rishi Sunak should have declared that companies co-owned by his wife were given £2m through his government scheme to help startups in the pandemic.

Lucy Powell, the shadow leader of the House of Commons, wrote to the commissioner for standards to ask whether they should have been declared in parliamentary proceedings, after the Guardian reported that four companies linked to Akshata Murty had received investments from the Future Fund.

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