The Labour party is demanding that Michael Gove answer urgent questions over how a personal friend of Boris Johnson’s was chosen to sit on a sleaze watchdog - over three weeks after the appointment was made. Fergusson is a university friend of the prime minister’s, dating back to their days at Oxford when they were both members of elite dining society the Bullingdon club. Rayner told HuffPost UK: “It’s a complete joke that Boris Johnson’s university chum will be marking the Tories’ homework on sleaze, and be paid taxpayers’ money to do so. Non-political committee members such as Fergusson are entitled to claim up to £240 a day in expenses. “Previous governments and prime ministers of all parties have taken care in making such appointments.

Source: Huffington Post August 10, 2021 09:58 UTC