Rachel Reeves is under further pressure after two of her statements regarding the illegal house rental, released within 24 hours of each other, are contradictory. There are perils to hastily clearing your Chancellor of wrongdoing on the first night of a news story without any actual investigation…
29 October:
“Regrettably, we were not aware that a licence was necessary, and so we did not obtain the licence before letting the property out.”
30 October:
“Today the letting agency and my husband have found correspondence confirming that on 17th July 2024 the letting agent said to my husband that a Selective Licence would be required and agreed that the agency would apply for the licence on our behalf.”
Co-conspirators might remember Damian Green’s 2017 resignation, precipitated by the minister’s statements claiming he had never been told that the Met found porn on his work computer ten years prior, when in reality “police lawyers talked to my lawyers in 2008 about the pornography on the computers, and that the police raised it with me in a subsequent phone call in 2013.” This contradiction was found to be a breach of the ministerial code in a Cabinet Office report – Green had to resign…
A Tory source says: “There is clear precedent for ministers lying in statements being a breach of the ministerial code and having to go. Starmer is letting Reeves get off scot-free because he’s too weak to stand up for proper procedure.” When Starmer promised to “restore standards in public life” is this how he expected to conduct ethics investigations?
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