![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/brazen-boris-johnson-wont-be-punished-for-latest-clear-and-unambiguous-rule-breach/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0_xkc108-0_123.jpg&description=The ex-PM sparked anger when he gave Parliament's anti-corruption watchdog just half an hour's notice that he'd started writing a weekly column for the Daily Mail Boris Johnson won't face any action despite committing a "clear and unambiguous" breach of rules for former ministers. The brazen ex-PM sparked anger when he gave Parliament's anti-corruption watchdog just half an hour's notice that he'd started writing a weekly column for the Daily Mail. Under strict Parliamentary rules former ministers aren't allowed to take up new appointments before receiving advice from the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba). Lord Pickles, who chairs the committee, said Mr Johnson had clearly flouted the rules. But Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden has confirmed the Government has backed down from another fight with Mr Johnson. He said any such punishment would be "disproportionate". The day after leaving Parliament in a strop Mr Johnson started his column, with his contract worth a reported £1million. His first offering saw the ex-PM tell a long-winded story about an unnamed Cabinet member who "miraculous changed his appearance" by losing weight. Mr Dowden said the Cabinet Office accepted Acoba's assessment that the risks around media appointments are "limited", ruling: "I therefore also accept that it would be disproportionate to undertake further action in these circumstances other than the public exchange of such correspondence (noting that there was a breach)." Back in June Lord Pickles said urgent reform of the rules is needed, stating: "Mr Johnson's case is a further illustration of how out of date the Government's Business Rules are." And in a not-so-subtle dig at the former PM he wrote: "They were designed to offer guidelines when 'good chaps' could be relied on to observe the letter and the spirit of the Rules. "If it ever existed, that time has long passed and the contemporary world has outgrown the Rules." The letter added: "What action to take in relati){kind=link}
The ex-PM sparked anger when he gave Parliament’s anti-corruption watchdog just half an hour’s notice that he’d started writing a weekly column for the Daily Mail
Boris Johnson won’t face any action despite committing a “clear and unambiguous” breach of rules for former ministers.
The brazen ex-PM sparked anger when he gave Parliament’s anti-corruption watchdog just half an hour’s notice that he’d started writing a weekly column for the Daily Mail. Under strict Parliamentary rules former ministers aren’t allowed to take up new appointments before receiving advice from the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba).
Lord Pickles, who chairs the committee, said Mr Johnson had clearly flouted the rules. But Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden has confirmed the Government has backed down from another fight with Mr Johnson. He said any such punishment would be “disproportionate”.
The day after leaving Parliament in a strop Mr Johnson started his column, with his contract worth a reported £1million. His first offering saw the ex-PM tell a long-winded story about an unnamed Cabinet member who “miraculous changed his appearance” by losing weight.