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Rishi Sunak under investigation by standards watchdog over interest declaration

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The Prime Minister is under investigation following allegations of a possible failure to declare the shares his wife holds in a childcare agency that was boosted by the Budget.

Parliament's standards watchdog has opened the inquiry into Rishi Sunak under rules which demand that MPs are 'open and frank' when declaring their interests.

The investigation reportedly relates to shares that Akshata Murthy holds in Koru Kids. Downing Street said the Prime Minister will clarify how it was declared as a ministerial interest, instead of to the Commons.

The parliamentary website showed Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Daniel Greenberg, opened the investigation under the MPs' code of conduct on Thursday. Read more: LIVE: Crime Scene Investigation on the scene amid eyewitness claims that 'man was attacked with a paving slab and seen lying on the ground' “Members must always be open and frank in declaring any relevant interest in any proceeding of the House or its committees, and in any communications with ministers, members, public officials or public office holders,” the relevant section reads.

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