UK PM Rishi Sunak breaks Parliament’s code of conduct for failing to declare wife’s shares

LONDON (TIP): UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak should have declared his wife’s stake in a company that was set to benefit from government cash, a parliamentary watchdog declared on August 24. Sunak vowed “integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level” when he came to power, after the short-lived tenure of Liz Truss and the scandal-hit premiership of Boris Johnson. But in a year in office, he has received a police fine for not wearing a seatbelt, on top of another for breaking Covid lockdown rules when he was finance minister under Johnson. House of Commons Standards Commissioner Daniel Greenberg began a probe in April after receiving a complaint about Sunak’s comments to a committee of senior MPs the previous month. Sunak failed to mention to them and in a follow-up letter that his wife, Akshata Murthy, held shares in a childminding firm that would receive additional state funding. (AFP)