No 10 refuse to say if Rishi Sunak overruled advice when he reappointed Suella Braverman 🔴 EXCLUSIVE from janemerrick23
after she admitted breaching the ministerial code by sending a sensitive official document from her personal email account.
But Mr Sunak reinstated her at the Home Office a week later when he became Prime Minister, despite concerns from opposition parties that it could pose a risk to national security.by declining to say whether or not the Prime Minister was told by civil servants whether it was proper to reinstate Ms Braverman a week after she had broken the Ministerial Code.
The response said to even confirm the existence of any advice would have a “chilling effect” on the “safe space” afforded to civil servants when advising ministers, and rejected the argument that there was a public interest in disclosing it. The way in which ministers are appointed has been under fresh scrutiny this week by revelations involvingMr Sunak said on Wednesday that he knew of “no issues” raised about Mr Zahawi when he appointed him Conservative Party chairman, but that “new information” had come to light over the weekend about his tax arrangements.
The PM has asked his ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus to investigate the matter and in his report published on Sunday Sir Laurie found that Mr Zahawi hadMystery over Mr Zahawi’s case had deepened because of a lack of information about who knew what, and when, about his financial arrangements.
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