MPs will vote on Tuesday on whether to grant a select committee powers to appoint its own independent adviser on ministerial code breaches and initiate its own investigations if the role of Boris Johnson's ethics adviser goes unfilled.
"While this sleaze-ridden prime minister is propped up in office by Conservative MPs, the government is totally unable to tackle the cost of living crisis facing the British people.
"Labour's proposal would ensure that a cross-party group of MPs is given powers to step in and monitor this rogue prime minister's behaviour until a new, genuinely independent adviser is confirmed. "This vacancy must not only be filled, but the role urgently reformed as the Committee on Standards in Public Life has concluded. It's time for Conservative MPs to stop propping up this disgraced prime minister and back Labour's plan to clean up politics."Lord Geidt became the second independent adviser to resign under Mr Johnson, saying the prime minister had left him in an"impossible and odious position".
Prior to standing down last week, he admitted he had considered resigning over Mr Johnson's response to his partygate fine for breaking COVID-19 rules. Explaining to the prime minister why he was leaving, Lord Geidt said he believed"by a very small margin" that it was possible"to continue credibly as independent adviser" after partygate.In his resignation letter, Lord Geidt said he had been asked to offer a view on"measures which risk a deliberate and purposeful breach of the ministerial code".
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