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Anti-gentrification graffiti is scrawled on a sign by the entrance of the Westferry Printworks site on the Isle of Dogs, east London. The £1 billion Westferry Printworks redevelopment scheme in east London was controversially approved in January by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick, against the recommendation of a planning inspector
LABOUR lodged a formal complaint against Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick today, urging an investigation into whether he breached the MPs’ code of conduct by approving a controversial development plan.
The party’s letter to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards lists five “apparent breaches” in what it describes as a “cash for favours” scandal involving former press baron and pornographer Richard Desmond.
Labour has also piled pressure onto PM Boris Johnson to come clean over his own links with the billionaire developer after it was revealed that the pair spoke at a fundraising dinner and were pictured with their arms around each other.
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests