From 3h agoKey events8m agoTreasury minister to respond to Commons urgent question after CMA proposes petrol price monitor1h agoLabour dismisses Cabinet Office report saying Sue Gray may have breached civil service code as ‘Mickey Mouse nonsense’2h agoCabinet Office says Sue Gray’s job talks with Labour involved ‘prima facie’ breach of civil service code2h agoTory MP Miriam Cates calls for wages to rise for care workers so employers don’t rely on hiring foreigners3h ago’Red wall’ Tories call for proposed annual cap on number of refugees admitted to UK to be set at 20,0003h agoSunak under fresh pressure on immigration as poll suggests two thirds of Tory members want to leave ECHRFilters BETAKey events (6)Sue Gray (4)8m ago07.38 EDTTreasury minister to respond to Commons urgent question after CMA proposes petrol price monitor
The Competition and Markets Authority has proposed the launch of a fuel price monitor after it found that drivers were paying more for petrol and diesel than before the Covid pandemic because of “weakened” competition between retailers. Alex Lawson has the story here.
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At 3.30pm the Lib Dem MP Tim Farron is asking an urgent question about petrol prices. A Treasury minister will respond.
Updated at 07.42 EDT29m ago07.17 EDT
Sir Jonathan Jones, the former head of the government legal service, says the use of the term “prima facie” in the Cabinet Office statement about Sue Gray (see 10.59am) shows that it has not been proven that she broke the civil service code.
Posting on Twitter (he is one of the people not yet deterred, despite Elon Musk’s attempts to make the site less useable), Jones also says the Cabinet Office statement seems to have been motivated by “personal animus”.
I’m not surprised officials are said to have advised against this statement. What’s the point of it if not personal animus? https://t.co/7mhvGYNDfs
— Jonathan Jones (@SirJJKC) July 3, 2023
The statement says the rules are “clear” & “the facts speak for themselves”. But nothing is proved (a “prima facie” case only). Is it really clear that the rules apply to informal/personal contacts, not about government business, but about a possible future job?
— Jonathan Jones (@SirJJKC) July 3, 2023Updated at 07.25 EDT1h ago06.41 EDTLabour dismisses Cabinet Office report saying Sue Gray may have breached civil service code as ‘Mickey Mouse nonsense’
Labour has described the Cabinet Office statement saying Sue Gray committed a “prima facie” breach of the civil service code when she took a job with the party (see 10.59am) as “a political stunt”. As Rowena Mason reports, a Labour spokesperson said:
All rules were complied with. The Acoba process makes that clear. This statement is a political stunt by a Tory government out of ideas and out of road.
It says everything you need to know about the Tories that they have spent weeks wasting time on this…
2023-07-03 06:42:56
Source from www.theguardian.com
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