On Monday morning, Rishi Sunak was unable to find a single member of the government willing to go on television and defend the transparently indefensible. By yesterday morning things had got worse: Chris Philp had said yes.
Even without the specific personnel involved, it would already be auto-ironic. Rishi Sunak has not found it within him yet to sack Nadhim Zahawi from his cabinet role. He has instead referred him to his new “Whitehall ethics adviser” (the previous one resigned after she was found to have provided a karaoke machine for a drinks party in Downing Street in the middle of lockdown. I don’t write this stuff. I just type it out).
This, to be clear, is not to be confused with the prime minister’s ethics adviser, principally because the prime minister doesn’t have one anymore. The two most recent ones resigned while working for Boris Johnson, one because he was lied to about who was paying for the two hundred grand flat refurb – and the other one because he concluded Priti Patel had broken the ministerial code over bullying junior staff, but then concluded that Boris Johnson didn’t care.
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