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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Adam Forrest

Labour to force Commons vote on new ethics watchdog after Lord Geidt’s exit

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Parliament is set to vote on a Labour plan to grant MPs on a cross-party select committee new powers to hold Boris Johnson and his ministers to account following the exit of his ethics adviser.

Lord Geidt quit last week as the independent adviser on ministers’ interests – saying the PM had put him in an “impossible and odious position”.

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