Sir Keir Starmer has been found to have breached the MPs’ code of conduct by failing to register eight separate interests on time, including gifts from football teams and the sale of a plot of land.
An inquiry into the Labour leader was opened in June by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Kathryn Stone, relating to claims about late declaration of earnings and gifts, benefits or hospitality from UK sources.
Sir Keir insisted at the time that he was “absolutely confident” he had not breached the code.
But the commissioner has now found that he failed to register eight interests – five more than alleged in the original complaint.
However, Ms Stone noted that the “breaches were minor and/or inadvertent, and that there was no deliberate attempt to mislead”.
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