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Jess Phillips flouts the freebie rules yet again
Despite promises to clean up her act after previous violations, Home Office minister waited five months to declare a luxury Chelsea flower show dinner with Lloyds Bank, as Labour’s love of freebies continues, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
CAUGHT OUT AGAIN:
The MP for Birmingham
Yardley can’t resist a
corporate freebie
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HOME Office Minister Jess Phillips waited over five months to put her freebie luxury dinner at the Chelsea flower show from Lloyds Bank on her Register of MP’s Interests.
This looks like a clear breach of rules saying MPs must register such freebies “within 28 days.” The current parliamentary standards commissioner says he is investigating Phillips for “late registration of an interest,” but due to the obscure parliamentary rules, he could not confirm this was over the flower show dinner: I think it almost certainly is.
Phillips has been investigated for the same breach of rules in 2022 and again in 2023. The commissioner said the latter was a “relatively minor breach” about failing to register in time a £1,000 payment from the University of Bristol for a 2-hour lecture.
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