Rishi Sunak faced questions last night over his failure to publicly declare the fact that his wife is a director of a luxury clothing store which received money under the Treasury’s multi-billion-pound furlough scheme. Rishi Sunak faced questions last night over his failure to publicly declare the fact that his wife is a director of a luxury clothing store which received money under the Treasury’s multi-billion-pound furlough scheme. Yesterday sources close to Mr Sunak said he had declared his wife’s business interests to senior civil servants when he first entered the Treasury in 2019 – long before he unveiled the furlough scheme. Lord Ashcroft reveals the heavy toll the crisis has taken on Mr Sunak, with staff left worried about the impact his intense efforts to limit the pandemic’s economic damage are having on his health. The Treasury said Mr Sunak ‘has followed the ministerial code to the letter’.

Source: Daily Mail October 31, 2020 22:03 UTC