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System to enforce ministerial code under review as ethics adviser resigns over Partygate and steel tariffs row

‘Impossible and odious’: Lord Geidt quit over request to approve rule-breaking by prime minister

Lord Geidt’s resignation letter is bad for the Government. In it, the Prime Minister’s now-former ethics advisor accuses him of risking a “deliberate and purposeful breach of the ministerial code” that had placed Geidt in an “impossible and odious position”.

Boris Johnson has lost his second Independent Advisor on Ministerial Interests in two years after Lord Geidt sensationally resigned. It's since emerged an obscure row over tariffs was - at least partly - to blame. Ben Glaze explains...

Labour demanded a new ministerial interests adviser was installed, with the PM having ‘debased standards and rigged the rules for far too long’

Labour demanded a new ministerial interests adviser was installed, with the PM having ‘debased standards and rigged the rules for far too long’.

Lord Geidt dramatically resigned after Boris Johnson forced him into an 'odious' position by asking him to consider a plan that deliberately breached the ministerial code

Downing Street would not confirm that Lord Geidt will be replaced as suspicions rose that the resignation was provoked by the Prime Minister's continued disregard for the Ministerial code.

High-profile independent individual may be replaced with committee