Nigel Farage under investigation by parliamentary standards commissioner
Nigel Farage is under investigation by the parliamentary standards watchdog over a potential breach of the MP’s code of conduct.
The Reform UK leader is being investigated over a possible break of rule five, which relates to registration of an interest.
The parliamentary commissioner for standards, Daniel Greenberg, opened an investigation on Monday, according to the Parliament website.
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“Doing his job”
A spokesperson for Mr Farage said: “Following a complaint from a member of the House of Lords, the Commissioner for Standards is doing his job.”
According to the MP’s code of conduct, rule five requires that new members should register their interests and and benefits they received in the 12 months before entering Parliament within one month of being elected.
It also says that MPs must register any changes to their interests.
It says: “Members must fulfil conscientiously the requirements of the House in respect of the registration of interests in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.
“New Members must register all their current financial interests, and any registrable benefits (other than earnings) received in the 12 months before their election within one month of their election, and Members must register any change in those registrable interests within 28 days.”
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Someone in the house of Lords is using a fine tooth comb and picking out the nits. That is an amazing picture as well.
An unelected Lord collecting the daily allowance of £300+ dobbing in an elected MP, handy dead cat story for Labour with recent joust with Farage.
Let’s see if there’s a case to answer first.
£300 daily allowance ? Doesn’t hold a candle to what Farage is coining from outside sources whilst supposedly representing the gullible voters of Clacton in Parliament? One thing’s for sure, he’s got no interest in protecting their children, or ours for that matter..
The most gullible voters in the UK are the ones that have kept Welsh labour in power for 25yrs.
Poor ole Nige! He has so much money pouring into his accounts in an attempt to be accepted by Coutts & Co, how can he possibly keep track? Every one of his GBeebies propaganda hate spews draws yet more cash, even I can’t keep count and I’m using a ten ball abacus.
The first act of the RefCon alliance in 2029 will be to abolish the Commissioner for Standards role.
Maybe house of Lords first?
They would be abolishing a lot of things including decency and NHS and courts that lock the white folk up for rioting and burning hotels….
Yes, standards? Down with that sort of thing eh?
This will increase his standing as an ‘enemy’ of the Establishment
Surely the rules can’t apply to him! He’s special (apparently).
It seems the rules about inciting hatred and violence don’t!
It is the same issue that Starmer and Reeves ran into re: clothes, theatre tickets etc usual outcome is correct register and apologise.
How do you know?
It depends what the omitted benefits were.
There’s absolutely no suggestion at this stage that he was wined and dined at an oligarchs castle with Russian models in Italy. Because that was Boris Johnson who I’m sure declared it fully:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/revealed-boris-russian-oligarch-and-page-3-model/
Arrrr! Shiver me timbers, it be the trawler, me hearties!
What aren’t we being told? To quote a certain part time Member for Clacton.
“The Standards Commissioner is doing his job”.Yes but is Farage doing his? The one for which he receives taxpayers money to carry out.
The sad thing is though despite all this and all what has passed, deform is still more likely to win the majority of seats here in the next Welsh elections.
Due to the new electoral voting system that will more accurately reflect how the people of Wales vote it is highly unlikely that Reform will win a majority of seats at the next Senedd elections. It is possible their group will be larger than any other group.
New system is hardly revolutionary so no, deform could win.
Wouldn’t buy a used car from this huckster