The questions Starmer’s ethics adviser must answer
From our UK edition
The fall of Olly Robbins and the renewed focus on what the Prime Minister actually knew about Peter Mandelson’s appointment returns acute attention to the one man who genuinely holds Keir Starmer’s fate in his hands. There are important questions about the double standards at play here, and their possible causes Sir Laurie Magnus is the Prime Minister’s ‘independent adviser on ministerial standards’, and he has the power to initiate an investigation into every aspect of the PM’s own conduct. He is a banker by background, but this does not quite do him justice. He is a silken but steely courtier with commercial experience and integrity: a rare bird in Whitehall.
