The Daily Mail's report this month of that earlier deal led Labour to refer Miss Patel to Cabinet Secretary Simon Case. Mr Jassal, a councillor in Kent, who worked for Miss Patel as an unpaid adviser, twice unsuccessfully stood for Parliament for the Tories. When he stood for Feltham in west London in the 2017 general election, Miss Patel campaigned with him. Last night, Miss Patel insisted she did nothing wrong, and her spokesman described claims that she has as 'false'. On that occasion she suggested Miss Patel had been involved in 'a glaring and flagrant breach of the Ministerial Code'.

Source: Daily Mail May 28, 2021 21:01 UTC