Angela Rayner accuses ministers and advisers of behaving ‘like rules are for other people’

Labour has accused ministers and advisers of treating “the public purse as a personal cashpoint”, saying a spate of recent reports about alleged conflicts of interest highlighted the need for a truly independent arbiter of the ministerial code.

In an urgent question about the ministerial code and the long-delayed publication of an update of the register of ministerial interests, Angela Rayner said ministers were behaving “like rules are for other people”.

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