Special: Sunak’s ethics plan
Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
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The Financial Sanctions for Civil Service Employees
I think for the public, they feel that it's one rule for them and another for us. I had assumed that this was an attempt to level a playing field. It would be politically impossible for any government of any stripe to have those legal remedies and then decide not to use them. They won't all be financial, bear in mind. Some of them will be enforced gardening leave because you can’t take that job up yet, etc. The full suite is there if politicians are financially gaining from breaking the rules. That then fails the sniff test about one law for politicians and one of everybody else. If they ain't, then Fleur, I would agree with you, that
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