>Times: [Lord Geidt wants power to launch own investigations](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lord-geidt-wants-power-to-launch-own-investigations-z8zdlm3cp)
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>Geidt is expected to tell Johnson that he must agree to allow him and his successors to instigate inquiries into the prime minister and others without the permission of Downing Street. He will also ask that his role be put on a statutory footing, including his remit to initiate and conduct investigations.
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>The proposals were a key recommendation of Lord Evans of Weardale, chairman of the committee on standards in public life, but were rejected by Johnson last year.
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>Geidt accepted the job without the power to open his own inquiries but is understood now to believe that this is necessary. He thinks that Downing Street’s failure to hand over key messages between Johnson and Lord Brownlow, the Tory donor, during his initial investigation into the refurbishment has exposed weaknesses in the present system.
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>He will tell Johnson that he needs to make his position demonstrably independent of Downing Street to restore public confidence in the system. A friend of Lord Geidt said he felt “strongly that the existing system needs strengthening”. …
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>(mirror link: https://archive.is/3gcpD)
I suppose he could send another ‘Strongly worded letter’.
That’s how we deal with corruption in our democracy.
I don’t understand why the spotlights on all these random officials and Tory sponsors and not the twat at the top whose shitting down on all of them.
Put Johnson’s face on this story. Put Johnson’s name in the headline. This is about Johnson. Do not let him deflect
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>Times: [Lord Geidt wants power to launch own investigations](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lord-geidt-wants-power-to-launch-own-investigations-z8zdlm3cp)
>
>Geidt is expected to tell Johnson that he must agree to allow him and his successors to instigate inquiries into the prime minister and others without the permission of Downing Street. He will also ask that his role be put on a statutory footing, including his remit to initiate and conduct investigations.
>
>The proposals were a key recommendation of Lord Evans of Weardale, chairman of the committee on standards in public life, but were rejected by Johnson last year.
>
>Geidt accepted the job without the power to open his own inquiries but is understood now to believe that this is necessary. He thinks that Downing Street’s failure to hand over key messages between Johnson and Lord Brownlow, the Tory donor, during his initial investigation into the refurbishment has exposed weaknesses in the present system.
>
>He will tell Johnson that he needs to make his position demonstrably independent of Downing Street to restore public confidence in the system. A friend of Lord Geidt said he felt “strongly that the existing system needs strengthening”. …
>
>(mirror link: https://archive.is/3gcpD)
I suppose he could send another ‘Strongly worded letter’.
That’s how we deal with corruption in our democracy.
I don’t understand why the spotlights on all these random officials and Tory sponsors and not the twat at the top whose shitting down on all of them.
Put Johnson’s face on this story. Put Johnson’s name in the headline. This is about Johnson. Do not let him deflect
> re-open investigate?
It’ll just be another Geidt-wash.