...new MPs, new and explicit codes of conduct, and the extraordinary bravery of individual voices in bringing bad behaviour to light, these scandals recur with unedifying regularity. A scandal breaks,...
...evidence we receive will inform a submission into any review by the Commons Committee on Standards of the Code of Conduct and Guide to the Rules for MPs in due...
...in the bottom three of the ‘least trusted profession’ league tables alongside cabinet ministers and estate agents. Nonetheless, a free and independent press is also fundamental to political accountability and...
The Committee previously expressed its concerns about some of the government’s proposed changes to the process for Ministerial appointments to public bodies; an issue on which Lord Nolan first reported in 1995. The government’s new Governance Code was published …
