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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and wife Akshata Murty arrive at Indira Gandhi International Airport ahead of the G20 in Delhi, India, September 8, 2023
PRIME MINISTER Rishi Sunak broke the MPs’ code of conduct by publicly confirming details about a parliamentary standards watchdog probe.
No 10 confirmed details about the investigation into his failure to correctly declare his wife Akshata Murty’s financial interest in a childminding company earlier this year.
The Commons Standards Committee found this constituted a “minor and inadvertent” breach of rule 13 of the MPs’ code of conduct — which forbids parliamentarians from disclosing details of “any investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards except when required by law to do so, or authorised by the Commissioner.”
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