Replacing PM’s ethics adviser may be as unfeasible as the role itself

Analysis: job to uphold ministerial code has been tainted by Boris Johnson's undermining actions

Who would be an ethics adviser to this government? Unless there is a figure lurking in the wings, it is unclear who would be prepared to fill one of the most tainted jobs in public life.

It is always possible that No 10 has an immediate replacement in mind. But Boris Johnson found it hard enough to recruit this one - it took five months for him to appoint Lord Geidt, after the bitter circumstances around the resignation of the preceding ethics adviser, Sir Alex Allan, in November 2020.