PM will not face parliamentary standards probe over Downing St flat refurb

The prime minister’s official spokesperson has said today that he will not face a further over the Downing Street flat refurbishment.

“I understand that she has confirmed they won’t be looking into that,” the spokesman told the No 10 briefing this afternoon.
Investigations undertaken by the Electoral Commission (EC) and Lord Geidt respectively have already taken place,” they told reporters this afternoon.

In December the EC fined the Conservative Party £17,800 after it was found to have failed to accurately report the donations made for the refurb.

Last week Boris Johnson offered his “humble and sincere” apologies to Lord Geidt after he exonerated the prime minister for breaking the ministerial code.

Lord Geidt, the government’s independent adviser on ministerial interests, published his initial inquiry earlier in Spring 2021, stating the prime minister knew nothing of the payments that funded the refurbishment of his N0 11 Downing Street flat until “immediately prior” to newspaper reports in February 2021.

Lord Geidt had previously been unaware of the exchange between Boris Johnson and Lord Brownlow in November 2020, which the Cabinet Office claimed was because the prime minister had to change his phone number due to a security breach.