Keir Starmer has fixed the barn door after the horse bolted
In typical politician style, Keir Starmer has fixed the barn door after the horse bolted.
After paying back more than £6,000 worth of gifts he has received, he has changed the rules on ministers accepting them, and other gestures of hospitality – although not by much.
Rather than banning ministers from taking any freebies at all, the Ministerial Code will now require them to consider the “need to maintain the public’s confidence in the standards of propriety” when deciding whether to do so.
A register of gifts received by ministers will now be published monthly, rather than quarterly, meaning the public will have a greater opportunity to decide whether that confidence has been eroded.
The monthly register will include details and the value of gifts worth more than £140, as well as hospitality, received and given by ministers in their ministerial capacity.
Personally, This Writer feels that all gifts should be listed, no matter what the value.
£140 is far more than people receive every week on Universal Credit. If ministers are receiving goods worth more than that as gifts, we should be asking why.
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I find it amazing that they do not understand that it is just wrong to accept gifts. When I was a probation officer I did not accept even half a dozen eggs as I did not want to be in a position where it could be sseen that I was influenced by such a gift ! And I was not on 80+k a year either