By the by, this article popped up on the home page of our favourite paper.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... regulators
June 2025
Starmer’s promised ethics commission may repackage existing regulators
Government sources say ‘umbrella’ structure now more likely after plans for independent body found to be too complex
This followed earlier in June
Keir Starmer facing scrutiny over failure to establish new ethics watchdog
This article is more than 8 months old
Commons inquiry to examine lack of progress in fulfilling manifesto pledge to set up ethics and integrity body
You get the message right? There he goes again, shifty old Starmer!
What's this?
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org. ... commission
September 2025. Note the source isn't The Guardian.
Ethics and Integrity Commission
The government has established its new ethics regulator, the Ethics and Integrity Commission.
With more powers than the bodies it replaced too.
Like the CSPL, the EIC does not investigate specific cases. The EIC has taken on new responsibilities, including:
A formal leadership role to convene ethics and standards bodies in central government and in parliament;
Delivering an annual report to the prime minister on the overall health of the standards system;
Engaging with public sector bodies to help them develop “clear codes of conduct with effective oversight arrangements”.2
The government has also committed to responding to all EIC reports “in a reasonable timeframe”;3 governments have responded to CSPL reports in the past, though in some cases this has taken several years.
So, manifesto promise kept, independent oversight strengthened.
How long before anybody has a word with the journos who keep predicting stuff that doesn't come true, and whose errors always seems to show the Government in bad light? Or perhaps that's what the high ups actually want, you think?