Tory peer Eric Pickles asks for sanctions for breaches of ministerial code and end to out-of-date ‘good chaps’ system
Boris Johnson committed an unambiguous breach of the rules when he failed to get permission from the ministerial appointments watchdog before taking a job as a Daily Mail columnist, which has led to calls for reform of the “good chaps” system.
The former prime minister was unveiled as a writer for the newspaper earlier this month, but he only told the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) half an hour before the appointment was made public.
