Parliamentary commissioner for standards says PM should have declared his wife’s interest in the firm, which was set to benefit from budget measures

Rishi Sunak breached parliament’s code of conduct by failing to properly declare his wife’s shareholding in a childcare company which stood to benefit from new government policy but did so inadvertently, parliament’s standards watchdog has concluded.

An investigation was launched in April by Daniel Greenberg, parliament’s commissioner for standards, into a potential breach of transparency rules relating to his links to the firm Koru Kids, in which his wife, Akshata Murty, is an investor.

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