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‘Big mistake’ not replacing Lord Geidt PM told, as spoof job advert goes viral

However, Business minister Paul Scully said he would be comfortable without a replacement ethics adviser as long as ministers are held to account in another way.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2022-06-17 09:31
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Boris Johnson would be committing a “big mistake” if he refuses to replace Lord Geidt as ethics adviser, the Prime Minister’s former anti-corruption champion has warned.

It comes as a spoof job advert, for the post, by Best for Britain is going viral.

Conservative former minister John Penrose said on Friday that a failure to fill the role after Lord’s Geidt resignation in anger would leave “really quite damaging questions dangling”.

Lord Geidt said he had been narrowly clinging on as ministerial interests adviser over partygate but ultimately quit after being forced into an “impossible and odious” position by the Prime Minister.

He accused Mr Johnson of considering risking a “deliberate and purposeful breach” of his own ministerial code by potentially breaking World Trade Organisation rules over Chinese steel tariffs.

Big mistake

Downing Street accepted the ethics chief fulfils a “vitally important” function advising on the ministerial code but said the Prime Minister was reviewing the position and could abolish it.

Mr Penrose told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think that would be potentially quite a big mistake.”

“I think one of the reasons why it’s important to have some continuity, why it’s important to have if not a precise replacement then an effective succession here, is to make sure that you don’t leave really quite damaging questions dangling and that anything that’s outstanding doesn’t just get forgotten and lost,” he added.

The MP for Weston-super-Mare resigned from the anti-corruption role last week accusing Mr Johnson of breaking the code in his response to Sue Gray’s report into lockdown-breaking parties.

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On Friday, Mr Penrose added: “I just think that the Prime Minister is currently overdrawn, if I can put it that way, on his account with both the voters and with the parliamentary party. They need to show that they’re serious about this.”

Business minister Paul Scully said he would be comfortable without a replacement ethics adviser as long as ministers are held to account in another way.

“I think I would be comfortable with that as long as there is a mechanism that (ensures) the Prime Minister and that me as minister are held to the highest standards,” he told Sky News.

“There is a ministerial code there and we want to make sure that it’s adhered to, because it (enshrines) the principles that we all stand on, not just as MPs when we first come into the House, but when we accept office as ministers.”

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Embarrassing from Paul Scully:

‘Can you say in the light of that [Lord Geidt’s resignation letter], without doubt, that you believe that the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, is a man who upholds the highest standards required of his office?’

‘Yes’#KayBurley pic.twitter.com/P9aJtXS4P8

— Toby Earle 🇺🇦 (@TobyonTV) June 17, 2022

Related: Watch: Tory candidate said we can still trust MPs using Harold Shipman analogy

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