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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker, Jessica Elgot and Pippa Crerar

Parliament watchdog opens investigation into Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak did not mention his wife’s interest in a childcare company when he was speaking about childcare changes. Photograph: James Veysey/Shutterstock

Rishi Sunak faces further questions over his family’s financial interests after a standards investigation was launched into a potential breach of transparency rules relating to his links to a childcare firm in which his wife is an investor.

Opposition parties said the investigation by Daniel Greenberg, parliament’s commissioner for standards, was a sign sleaze had returned to No 10 – and it will be a third propriety investigation into Sunak, who has been fined by police for breaching Covid rules and for not wearing a seatbelt.

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