Standards in public life. It does not set the heart racing until a scandal breaks, at which point there is talk of little else. So even if the new ministerial code had not dropped on Wednesday, at the same time as the world was digesting news of Donald Trump's victory, it would still likely not have received much fanfare.
But given that today is a little quieter (a pogrom overnight in Amsterdam, the collapse of the German government, the Trump transition, Russian drone barrages on Kyiv, an impending Iranian-backed strike on Israel, continued fighting in Lebanon, Gaza and Sudan) it might be an opportunity to dive into the new ministerial code, and what it means for the government.
