“Labour to tighten ministerial hospitality declaration rules” - BBC News Meaningless tweaking of tiny micro-rule by McFadden here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The move follows criticism over freebies accepted by the prime minister and other cabinet ministers.
Former deputy PM Oliver Dowden interviewed in election day betting probe news.sky.com/story/former...
Sir Oliver Dowden follows Rishi Sunak's former parliamentary aide Craig Williams and former Downing Street chief of staff Liam Booth-Smith in being interviewed by the Gambling Commission.
Exc: The wife of Tory leadership frontrunner Robert Jenrick advised oligarchs sanctioned in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we can reveal. x.com/murphy_simon...
This is from the Civil Service Code of Conduct. Why doesn't this also apply to MPs, I wonder? Could it be because MPs make their own rules? gov.uk/government/pub…x.com/alanferrier/...12
Now, why would a Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund with shares worth hundreds of millions of pounds in fossil fuels, private health firms, arms manufacturers and asset managers donate 4 million pounds to Labour's election fund? Oh, yeah... x.com/alanferrier/...
Sir Keir Starmer on Good Morning Britain, 2021. x.com/alanferrier/...
@strumstrum.bsky.social This is a completely false dichotomy. Donations can be made OK with low threshold for mandatory declaration, real time updates, cap on maximum donations (eg.£100,000), & very strict rules debarring firms or people who are govt contractors or possible honourees or appointees.
Emotional exhaustion spreads from employees to their teenage children blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
When employees feel stressed after work, they sometimes fake being happy while interacting with their children. Teenagers learn to mimic this habit from their parents. Drake Van Egdom, Jiajin Tong,…