'The Prime Minister is backing British industry' Newsnight's nicholaswatt speaks to Cabinet Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg MP on why the Prime Minister's ethics advisor Lord Geidt resigned 📋 Full report tonight on BBC Two 22:30
Lord Geidt is the second ethics adviser to quit under Mr Johnson's premiership.in 2020 - said it was "dreadful that an honourable man like Lord Geidt has been placed in a position where he felt he had no option but to resign".
But Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Simon Clarke, insisted the issue over which Lord Geidt resigned was one in which the government was "trying to do its best to support a British industrial sector" and nothing to do "with a personal ethics or conduct issue". Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said Parliament should be allowed to vet the next ethics adviser "so that Johnson can't simply appoint one of his cronies".In his resignation letter, Lord Geidt expresses concern about the prime minister's reaction to widespread Covid rule-breaking in Downing Street, as highlighted in Sue Gray's report.
Now that the letter has been published, it appears a trade question was the final straw, but many questions remain. The Trade Remedies Authority is a relatively new body, established after Brexit to decide whether action needed to be taken to protect UK industries., which decided to protect 15 steel products when the authority had recommended only 10.
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