Sir Keir Starmer found guilty of breaching MPs' code of conduct

Sir Keir Starmer was found guilty of violating MPs' code of conduct by failing to register eight separate interests on time, including gifts from football teams, the sale of land and a five-figure pound advance.

The Labor leader has apologized to Kathryn Stone, the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, for what the party called an "unintentional error".

Ms Stone opened an investigation into the Labor leader in June over allegations claims about late reporting of income and any gifts, benefits or hospitality from British sources, prompting Sir Keir to insist at the time that he was "absolutely conva incu" that he had not broken the code, saying, "There is no problem here".

But the commissioner has now discovered that he did not register eight interests - five more than alleged in the original complaint.

However, Ms Stone noted that "the breaches were minor and/or unintentional and there was no deliberate attempt to to mislead".

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So the watchdog has decided that the investigation could be concluded through the "rectification" procedure, which involves posting the details and apologies on the Commons website, without requiring a referral to the Standards Committee, which happens in most cases. serious.

Nevertheless, the decision will come as a blow to the former director of public prosecutions, who has often sought to position himself as the antithesis of a conservative party mired in the scandal under outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

In 2019, Mr Johnson was reprimanded by the standards committee s for "overly flippant attitude towards respecting the rules of the House", after he was found guilty of breaking the rules by failing to declare within the time limit a 20% share of the property of a property in Somerset.

Four months earlier he had apologized to the House after an earlier report by Ms Stone revealed he had overdue financial interest on four occasions, involving nine separate payments .