UK government denies allegations of corruption by Conservative Party donors | Corruption News

The government rejects allegations of corruption after a newspaper found that it had offered seats to donors in the upper house of parliament.

The government of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has rejected new allegations of corruption after an investigation by a newspaper found that the main donors of his Conservative Party had been offered seats in parliament.

The government has been embroiled in a corruption dispute over the past week as Johnson has had to abandon plans pushed by parliament to protect one of its MPs who broke lobby rules.

The Sunday Times reported that in the last two decades, except for one of the 16 Conservative treasurers, they have donated more than £ 3 million ($ 4.05 million) to the party and then offered it a seat in the House of Lords.

The role of the Conservative treasurer has become the noblest job in the UK, the newspaper said, ahead of the country’s leaders and charities and former prime ministers.

“Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party is rotten, honest, dirty and acceptable,” opposition Labor Party leader Angela Rayner wrote on Twitter.

“Once you pay your £ 3 million you get your parity.”

Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party is rotten, honest, dirty and acceptable. https://t.co/IBiaMg10b5

– Angela Rayner (@AngelaRayner) November 6, 2021

Environment Minister George Eustice denied the allegations.

“They are philanthropists who give large amounts to charity, who have been very successful in business and therefore need to be considered for the Lords for these reasons,” he told the BBC.

Eustic also described anger against conservative politician Owen Paterson, who left parliament after the government changed its plans to reform the system to fight parliamentary corruption as “storms”.

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told Sky News it was “difficult” to see a future for independent parliamentary commissioner Kathryn Stone for the standard, after Conservative MPs blocked a recommendation to dismiss Paterson, Sky News reported on Thursday.

Adam Bienkov, a Byline Times correspondent, said on Twitter: “It says a lot about the current political culture in the UK that Owen Paterson is the only person who is under threat of losing his job for breaking anti-corruption rules.

Much says about the current political culture in the UK that Owen Paterson is an independent researcher who revealed himself to be the only person who is threatened with losing his job for breaking anti-corruption rules. https://t.co/azOOi4lfoF

– Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) November 4, 2021

The row has raised new questions about Johnson’s ethics. He has faced other accusations, including that the party was secretly trying to help him renovate his Downing Street home with luxury renovation work. Johnson said the government followed the rules on renovation.

Johnson’s personal approval has dropped to the lowest level on record, according to the Observer newspaper’s Opinium poll, and the Conservatives ’difference over Labor has dropped by only one percent.

Parliament is due to hold an emergency debate on standards on Monday.

“The Prime Minister is undermining the reputation of our democracy and our country,” Labor spokesman Keir Starmer told BBC television on Sunday.

“It’s a role model for a prime minister who doesn’t know how to meet standards in public life.”