Submitted on Friday 17th March 2017
Rejected on Tuesday 28th March 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
George Osborne to resign his seat as MP for Tatton due to conflict of interest
George Osborne has been appointed editor of the Evening Standard. As the main purpose of the press in a free democracy is to hold government to account, a sitting MP serving as editor of a newspaper is a path to propaganda.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
This would be a decision for Mr Osborne, not the UK Government or Parliament.
You can read the House of Commons Code of Conduct, which contains the rules about MPs' financial interests, here:
www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmcode.htm
Complaints about breaches of the House of Commons Code of Conduct are investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, who is independent of Parliament and Government. You can find out more about the Commissioner and her role here:
http://www.parliament.uk/pcs
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