No 10 refuses to say if ethics adviser will be replaced following Lord Geidt’s resignation after being put in ‘impossible position’ – live

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Ellis has finished. He has not told us anything new about why Geidt resigned.

Ellis says the powers of the independent adviser on ministers' interests have changed.