Rishi Sunak is being investigated over a possible failure to declare an interest related to a childcare firm.
Sleaze. It's a big word, and it gets lobbed around at Westminster rather a lot.The thing is, it can take in everything from an MP who ends up in jail - thinkSo how big a deal isOn the Richter scale of these things, it feels like a rather minor tremor. Think a few loose roof tiles rather than anything much more.The first is what Rishi Sunak chose to say, and, crucially, not to say, in front of what is known as the Liaison Committee of MPs at the end of last month.
He was asked explicitly, by the Labour MP Catherine McKinnell, "there is nothing as prime minister you wish to declare?" in reference to a childcare company his wife Akshata Murty has shares in which looks likely to benefit from this spring's Budget.
The implication being that the prime minister should have referred explicitly to his wife's shareholding in front of the committee.
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