Well, that’s one way to displace our front page story on the crisis of patients waiting more than 12 hours in A&E. It was revealed this afternoon that the prime minister is being investigated by Parliament’s standards watchdog over allegations of a possible failure to declare the shares his wife, Akshata Murthy, holds in a childcare agency that could benefit from changes made in the Budget.
In the days following 15 March, Rishi Sunak faced questions about the shares owned by his wife in Koru Kids, given that it stands to gain from the changes to childcare provision announced by the chancellor. At the Liaison Committee on 28 March, when asked by the Labour MP Catherine McKinnell whether he had any interest to declare, the prime minister replied: “No. All my disclosures are declared in the normal way.”
