Ahead of Labour’s opposition day debate to call time on the Tory
sleaze scandal, the party has published a dossier exposing the
scale of Tory sleaze and corruption, with:
- £3.5bn worth of Covid contracts awarded to Tory-linked firms;
- 50 Conservative MPs raking in over £1.7m in consultancy fees
this year alone;
-
being investigated over
standards by every organisation he has been elected to.
Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, said:
"The scandal is the just tip of
the Conservative corruption iceberg.
"This dossier shows that this is not about one MP. This is about
a Prime Minister who won’t deal with this corruption scandal
because he is up to his neck in it.
"The Prime Minister has been investigated for breaking the rules
in every role he has ever been elected to. He has handed billions
of pounds to Conservative donors and his mates and Conservative
MPs are doing dodgy second jobs instead of serving the
constituents who elect them to Parliament.
"Labour will stamp out this rampant Conservative corruption from
our democracy and from public office."
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Notes to editors
- “Tory Sleaze: Contracts, Consultants and Cronyism” is
attached to this press release.
- Labour is calling for a 5-point plan to fix our politics.
- MPs from working as a paid Parliamentary strategist, adviser
or consultant.
- Stop the revolving door between Government and the companies
that ministers are supposed to regulate with a ban for five years
after leaving office.
- Stop Tory plans for foreign money in British politics and
create strict rules about donations from shell companies.
- Stop waste and corruption with taxpayer’s money with a new
Office for Value for Money and reform of the public procurement
system.
- Strengthen the government standards system with a new
independent integrity and ethics commission to defend and extend
standards in government. We have a strong system in the House of
Commons with the independent commissioner on standards and the
standards committee. In addition we need an overarching
independent body across government with adequate powers to look
at ministers’ behaviour both in and out of office.
