‘Funds for favours’: Geidt pressed to reopen investigation into PM’s flat

Emergence of great exhibition' messages seems to undermine ethics adviser's finding, says Labour

Boris Johnson's ethics adviser has been accused of failing to investigate a potential funds for favours" scandal after the prime minister was cleared of rule-breaking over his Downing Street flat refurbishment.

Christopher Geidt shut his investigation without commenting on Johnson seeking funds for the works from a Conservative donor while promising to consider plans for a great exhibition". Expectations also faded that another inquiry, led by parliament's standards commissioner Kathryn Stone, would go ahead.