Who Is Stupid Enough To Be Johnson's Next Ethics Man?
The Independent|June 17, 2022
It's not exactly one of the great mysteries of the age, is it? Just why is it that Boris Johnson has now had a second ethics adviser resign on him in barely two years? The greater mystery is that he was ever able to find one, let alone lose them again.
Tom Peck
Who Is Stupid Enough To Be Johnson's Next Ethics Man?

Agreeing to be Boris Johnson's ethics adviser is an act of stupidity that can be rivalled only by agreeing to be a vegan chef to a Tyrannosaurus rex. There are only so many unwanted dishes/emails you can send over before it's you that gets eaten up instead.

According to the letters exchanged between Lord Geidt, the now ex-independent ethics adviser, and the prime minister, it is the subject of potentially illegal steel subsidies that did it. Not the 126 people that got fined for partying in the prime minister's house, not the attempt to establish a moody charitable trust to get donors to pay for his golden wallpaper. Though it is arguably worth noting that this irresolvable question of steel subsidies has come to a head 24 hours after Geidt was forced to publicly humiliate himself on live television for an hour and a half while having to defend his own decision not to resign, but knowing he would be doing so the second the committee was finished.

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