Rishi Sunak has admitted to reading Jilly Cooper novels for ‘escapism’.
He refused calls to launch an official investigation into the home secretary for asking officials if she could have a private speed awareness course after being caught driving too fast.
Opposition critics accused Mr Sunak of being ‘too weak’ to act, but he insisted she made a ‘fulsome disclosure about what’s happened’. He said he had spoken with his ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus who ‘said we can close the matter here, so that’s what we’ve done”. Ms Braverman was accused of breaching the code by asking taxpayer-funded civil servants to help with a private matter.Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at
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