Labour asks watchdog to investigate Sunak over wife’s interest in startup fund

PM's much-criticised Future Fund, set up during the pandemic, gave 2m to companies co-owned by Akshata Murty

Labour has written to the standards watchdog to ask whether Rishi Sunak should have declared that companies co-owned by his wife were given 2m through his government scheme to help startups in the pandemic.

Lucy Powell, the shadow leader of the House of Commons, wrote to the commissioner for standards to ask whether they should have been declared in parliamentary proceedings, after the Guardian reported that four companies linked to Akshata Murty had received investments from the Future Fund.