Tag: political corruption

  • Mike Gordon:  A Statutory Basis for the Ministerial Code – the Challenges

    Mike Gordon: A Statutory Basis for the Ministerial Code – the Challenges

    With the UK in the midst of its latest political corruption crisis, the question of the (in)adequacy of the current infrastructure concerning standards in public life is once more in the spotlight.  Immediately prior to the parliamentary farce over the Owen Paterson lobbying affair, the Committee on Standards in Public Life published a significant report,…