Parliament’s Commissioner for Standards has ruled Labour MP Rosena Allin-Khan breached the MPs’ Code of Conduct in the run up to the 2019 General Election, by sending a ‘Brexit update’ letter to constituents using parliamentary stationery – as the commission explains it: using “public resources” to send out an “important personal campaign message”. Guido’s sure Allin-Khan’s anti-Brexit letter was a make-or-break moment in the race for Tooting…
Not only has Dr. Rosena been fined £1,142, the Standards Commissioner pointed out this is the third time in three years Allin-Khan has been found to have breached the house rules, being forcefully reminded that “Repeated breaches may indicate a lack of proper attention to the House’s standards system.” Rosena promised to “ensure this doesn’t happen again” – presumably what she said the previous two times…
Following The Sun’s picture scoop that Jeremy Corbyn attended a party of nine, Labour’s Shadow Education Minister Dr Rosena Allin-Khan was quick to say Corbyn should face a fine for breaching the rule of six. Dr Allin-Khan added that Stanley Johnson, who appears mask-less in a shop on the front page of The Mirror this morning, should be fined too. Both will be required to pay £200 under the new tighter rules…
Corbyn tried to explain away his actions, last night telling The Sun that he “the number of guests eventually exceeded five” at a his friend’s house for dinner. Despite the table appearing set for nine. The news comes days after Piers Corbyn was told he would face a £10,000 fine for helping organise an anti-lockdown mass gathering. Runs in the family…
One amused MP co-conspirator sent Guido this snap from outside Rosena Allin-Khan’s office, clearly following a rather sizable delivery from Harrods. She did seem pretty pleased about winning a “World Cup of MPs” Twitter poll yesterday – was a champagne order put in to celebrate?
Yesterday Matt Hancock landed himself in hot water by disapprovingly commenting on the tone of new shadow minister Rosena Allin-Khan during a debate, prompting immediate backlash from the quick-to-offence brigade, with the line “he wouldn’t have castigated a man’s tone” being trotted out. Guido’s been through the archives and found 44 examples from Matt Hancock of commenting on “tone” that undermine this outrage. Since his election in 2010, Hancock has chastised the tone of 11 MPs, only two of whom were women – Allin-Khan yesterday and Caroline Lucas. Man or woman, black or white, everyone is equal under the spotlight of Matt Hancock’s tone policing…
