Ellie Reeves has ‘updated’ the Commons on rule changes Labour is pursuing in the ongoing freebiegate scandal. Reeves blames the Tories for an anodyne discrepancy between ministerial declarations and MP declarations…

Reeves says the government will close Tories’ “freebie loophole” with a new version of the register of ministers’ gifts and hospitality – to function on a “broadly equivalent” basis to the MP register. The ministerial register is only different in that the value of gifts is not declared and it is published every quarter as opposed to every fortnight. Altering that system does nothing to address Labour’s rank hypocrisy over months of freebies revelations…

Seeing as the Tories managed to get an Urgent Question in Shadow Paymaster General John Glen asked Reeves for a few clarifications, including:

• Will ministers be banned from taking tickets to the Oasis 25 tour?
• What role did Downing Street play in the VIP escort further to the free tickets for Taylor Swift from Universal Music?
• Have all the political staff in the PM’s parliamentary office correctly declared their financial interests and hospitality?
• Why do ministers refuse in PQs to say when the new ministerial transparency platform will go live?
• Will the PM recuse himself from the Football Governance Bill after taking a donation in kind of £100,000 a year from Arsenal Football Club?
• Where is Labour’s new ethics and integrity commission?
• What discussions did Sue Gray have with Lord Alli on ministerial appointments and public appointments?
• Will ministers place in the library all the documents relating to Lord Alli’s operational integrity?

Reeves launched on the Tories in response and said she’d “take no lectures” as Labour backbenchers are rolled out to list historic Tory freebie-taking. Pressed on Swiftgate, Reeves stuck to the line that the top-level security motorcade was an “operational matter” for the police, despite the fact that the Attorney General, Mayor of London, Sue Gray, and the Home Secretary all personally got involved in lobbying the Met. Labour’s lines on the latest freebiegate scandal are going as well as all the last ones…