Ministers fail to act on calls to beef up standards

By Heather Jameson | 18 March 2022

The Government has been accused of ‘wilfully looking the other way’ on standards after failing to act on recommendations to beef up sanctions.

Three years after the Committee on Standards in Public Life launched its report on ethics in local government ministers have finally responded but rejected most of the recommendations.

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