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Re: Sleaze inquiry into Boris Johnson’s £15,000 Mustique holiday is still ongoing

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Boris Johnson faced a new sleaze row last night after it emerged that the parliamentary watchdog has accused him of failing to come clean about his Mustique holiday with fiancee Carrie Symonds.

Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Stone has said the Prime Minister's break was worth more than twice the £15,000 he declared in the Commons Register. And she said it was clear the bill had not been met by Tory donor and Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross, as the Prime Minister claimed.

Her damning verdict was delivered privately to Mr Johnson months ago. But he has refused to accept her ruling and is trying to overturn it to avoid the risk of being suspended as an MP.
The disclosures come days after she publicly confirmed she is investigating Mr Johnson's post-election victory holiday to Mustique in December 2019.

Miss Stone told Mr Johnson months ago she was certain he had flouted the rules. The name of the donor and the value of the benefit he had entered in the Commons Register of Financial Interests were incorrect, she said, meaning he was in breach of Westminster's code of conduct.
  • Mr Johnson and Miss Symonds did not stay in Mr Ross's villa, but in a different one owned by an American family.
  • The second family said they were unaware that Mr Johnson had stayed in their villa – but they had been paid by the MIC (the highly secretive Mustique Island Company).
  • She also said the advertised cost of renting the villa at that time of the year was £3,300 per day – or £33,000 over ten days, more than double the £15,000 which was declared by Mr Johnson.

Miss Stone told Mr Johnson she planned to refer the matter to the Parliamentary Standards Committee, which can impose sanctions including suspending an MP, and asked if he accepted her decision.

The Prime Minister is said to have objected in strong terms. It was Miss Stone who had got her facts wrong, not him, he said.
"Well, he would say that, wouldn't he" .....

Stick it to him, Miss Stone .....
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Re: Sleaze inquiry into Boris Johnson’s £15,000 Mustique holiday is still ongoing

Methinks Omah and those similarly inclined will be somewhat disgruntled by this today:

Boris Johnson cleared of breaching MP code of conduct over Mustique holiday

https://www.thenational.scot/news/19...tique-holiday/

And widely covered elsewhere now too.
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Re: Sleaze inquiry into Boris Johnson’s £15,000 Mustique holiday is still ongoing

Boris Johnson criticised over Mustique trip explanation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57761943

Boris Johnson has been criticised by the MPs standards watchdog for failing to promptly explain how a trip to Mustique was funded - however he has been cleared of breaching the rules.

The Standards Committee has now concluded that Mr Johnson's account was "accurate and complete". But, it added it was "regrettable" a full explanation had not come earlier.

In making its judgement, the committee overruled the standards commissioner who having carried out the report had concluded that Mr Johnson broke the rules by having not "fulfilled conscientiously" the requirements to register donations.

The committee said it reached a different conclusion after receiving additional evidence.

Mr Johnson declared that his £15,000 holiday accommodation on the Caribbean island had been covered by Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross.

Mr Ross initially said he had not paid "any monies" for the trip. He later clarified that he had "facilitated" accommodation for the prime minister.

Following an investigation, the standards committee concluded that Mr Ross had donated the accommodation, but added that the arrangements had been "ad hoc and informal and do not appear to have been fully explained to Mr Johnson at the outset".

"This matter could have been concluded many months ago if more strenuous efforts had been made to dispel the uncertainty," the committee said. "It is regrettable that a full account and explanation of the funding arrangements for Mr Johnson's holiday accommodation has only come to light as a result of our own inquiries rather than at an earlier stage. If greater clarity had been made available to the commissioner at the first instance, this matter could have been cleared up many months ago. Given that Mr Johnson was twice reprimanded by our predecessor committee in the last Parliament in the space of four months for 'an over-casual attitude towards obeying the rules of the House', we would have expected him to have gone the extra mile to ensure there was no uncertainty about the arrangements."
A Westminster "whitewash" for Whitehall .....

..... and an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny wrist-slap .....
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Re: Sleaze inquiry into Boris Johnson’s £15,000 Mustique holiday is still ongoing

Originally Posted by omah ->
boris johnson criticised over mustique trip explanation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57761943



a westminster "whitewash" for whitehall .....

..... And an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny wrist-slap .....
b-f-d.
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Re: Sleaze inquiry into Boris Johnson’s £15,000 Mustique holiday is still ongoing

Originally Posted by Omah ->
Boris Johnson criticised over Mustique trip explanation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57761943



A Westminster "whitewash" for Whitehall .....

..... and an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny wrist-slap .....
The important bit?
Not guilty.


The Beeb can try it's usual hateful divisive tactics, but at the end of the day even the link you provide by them has to say:
"Mr Johnson's account of the donation had been accurate."
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Another myth busted.

Why do the lying left keep doing this ?
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Re: Sleaze inquiry into Boris Johnson’s £15,000 Mustique holiday is still ongoing

Originally Posted by Bread ->
Another myth busted.

Why do the lying left keep doing this ?
Because the gullible keep falling for it .......... and because it causes division and sows the seeds of doubt in the gullible.
 
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