#LordGeidt: Downing Street is under pressure to make public why Boris Johnson's ethics adviser has quit - as the government faces an urgent question in the Commons over his exit.
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Oh well this is painful to watch
https://twitter.com/ITVNewsPolitics/status/1536687117929172992?s=20&t=5cN9xWhzyoU5CvfQZAHAsg
🔴 Read the full letter sent by #LordGeidt to Boris Johnson announcing his resignation as independent adviser on ministers’ interests, the second to resign under the PM in less than two years
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In his letter, #LordGeidt underlines the lack of proper and accurate response from #BorisJohnson about whether the PM had actually breached the Ministerial Code 
Moreover, the PM put the blame on #LordGeidt's office for what he called 'miscommunication".
Despite "these inconsistencies and deficiencies", at the time Geidt still believed that it was "possible to continue credibly as Independent Adviser, albeit by a very small margin".
Despite "these inconsistencies and deficiencies", at the time Geidt still believed that it was "possible to continue credibly as Independent Adviser, albeit by a very small margin".
However, #LordGeidt's position changed this week, when he "was tasked to offer a view about the Government's intention to consider measures which risk adeliberate and purposeful breach of the Ministerial Code".
"This request has placed me in an impossible and odious position", #LordGeidt's resignation letter continues, because "the idea thata Prime Minister might to any degree be in the business of deliberately breaching his own Code is an affront".
"A deliberate breach, or even an intention to do so, would be to suspend the provisions of the Code to suit a political end. This would make a mockery not only of respect forthe Code but licence the suspension of its provision in governing the conduct of Her Majesty's Ministers".
"I can have no part in this", Boris Johnson's ethics adviser #LordGeidt concludes his resignation letter.
He is the second ethics adviser to #BorisJohnson to resign in less than two years.
He is the second ethics adviser to #BorisJohnson to resign in less than two years.
In Nov 2020, Sir Alex Allan resigned when Boris Johnson refused to sack #PritiPatel, despite a formal investigation finding evidence that she bullied civil servants working for her.
The PM urged Tory colleagues to “form a square around the Prittster”
theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
The PM urged Tory colleagues to “form a square around the Prittster”
theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
What are the measures that #LordGeidt was tasked to consider and lead to his resignation?
https://twitter.com/JasonGroves1/status/1537388052544425984?s=20&t=w35g-gm32ogDEnuwfCQalw
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