Rachel Reeves under investigation by standards watchdog over ticket declaration
Rachel Reeves is under investigation by the parliamentary standards watchdog after a late declaration of free theatre tickets.
The Chancellor is understood to have referred herself to Daniel Greenberg, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, over the late declaration.
The tickets from the National Theatre were accepted and received on December 27, but were not declared on the members’ register of interests until March 27.
According to parliamentary rules, MPs must update any changes to their financial interests within 28 days.
Free tickets
Ms Reeves received four tickets, according to the entry on the members’ registry, one for her and three for family members.
They are estimated to have had a value of £276.
As well as the MPs’ register, ministers must separately declare any gifts or hospitality they receive on a ministers’ register.
The Chancellor’s tickets were entered into the December register for ministerial hospitality which was published in late January, and it is thought that an admin oversight is why they were entered late on to the MP register.
A spokesperson for Ms Reeves said: “The Chancellor’s interests are fully declared and up to date.”
The parliament website states that an investigation into Ms Reeves was opened on April 29 and relates to paragraph 5 of the Commons’ Code of Conduct, which lays out that financial interests must be declared within 28 days
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She will be deemed absolutely blameless.
Surely there aren’t two different departments maintaining registers. Surely one submission should get entered automatically into all relevant registers. How does this get turned into “Rachel Reeves under investigation” headlines two days before elections when stories about “freebies” is a gift to Reform.
Every single MP needs to stop taking bungs.
You want top tier tickets? You pay for them. You get a free ticket? You pay the total cost to charity. This must be across the board especially when convicted felons pay for you. Lets not forget the bungs that people get, flights paid for to NatC chats, wedding venues etc. boxes at the cricket and football. If I did that I would get the sack.
Labour missed a trick here.
Taking with both hands is so distasteful, so is spreading malicious gossip…
What a rogues gallery of senior politicians we have had for decades, as Blair reminds us.
Really awful, useless, ignorant, criminal and corrupt in mind and body types that they have subjected the population to harm using various refined cruelties from all Gov Depts in the UK…
The absolute opposite of what the country needed, but here we are reduced to our last four numbers…
Social Monopoly for two or more ministers to play…
Rachel is one of many who are just plain arrogant and entitled. Westminster is awash with them all salting away a decent salary and benefits package plus inflated expenses yet anxious to “top up” by any means available.
It is grotesque, vile and shameful, copyists of the treasonist Fat Shanks…
As well as falsifying her CV, Reeves has form for using her credit card for invalid expenses. The woman’s a liar, a fraud, and fiscally illiterate.
Quite the compliment after the last lot.
Rachel reeves kier starmer well I didn’t vote Labour in first place and personally I would trust old Boris to inform me of benefits of what I was likely to get as with the pair in charge cannot be trusted in fact I would go as far to they will lie to blame others to there benefit.
I am sure that her salary could accommodate less than £300.00
There are givers and there are TAKERS!!!