Downing Street tries to pressurise INDEPENDENT standards watchdog not to investigate Johnson’s flat redecoration
What would these freebies have cost? Boris Johnson doesn’t want you to know but it isn’t up to him or his Downing Street toadies – and they don’t like it one bit.
How can these Tories rise so high and still not understand the meaning of the word “independent”?
Officials working for Boris Johnson have claimed that there is no need for the independent Parliamentary commissioner for standards, Kathryn Stone, to investigate who paid for the redecoration of the prime minister’s Downing Street flat.
They also reckon she shouldn’t look into the monetary value of the villa in Marbella that Zac Goldsmith loaned to him while he pretended he was Van Gogh for a week last month.
They gave reasons which seem like nonsense to This Writer.
And the fact is that, only last week, Tory MPs were trying to bully Ms Stone into resigning from her role, after she found Owen Paterson guilty of corruption. She didn’t; she’s unlikely to cave in to this kind of weak argument either.
It is not for Downing Street yes-people to tell the standards commissioner what she can and cannot investigate; it is for her to tell them.
And if she finds against Johnson, it’s for him to take his punishment like a man, for a change.
Source: No 10 says watchdog should not look into PM’s flat renovation | Boris Johnson | The Guardian
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