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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gavin Cordon

Rishi Sunak’s ethics adviser ‘would expect approval to investigate ministers’

PA Wire

Rishi Sunak’s ethics adviser has said would expect to be given the go-ahead to investigate a minister if he believed there had been a breach of the rules.

Sir Laurie Magnus told MPs that while he required the Prime Minister’s permission to mount an inquiry into alleged violations of the Ministerial Code, he believed it would only be withheld if there was a “very, very good reason”.

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