Labour seeks inquiry into Boris Johnson and credit facility guaranteed by cousin

Ex-prime minister used 800,000 facility backed by a relative, wealthy Canadian businessman Sam Blyth, while at No 10

Labour is calling for an investigation into an alleged arrangement by which Boris Johnson used a relative to act as a guarantor for an 800,000 credit facility when he was prime minister.

The party has written to the parliamentary standards commissioner after the Sunday Times reported Canadian businessman Sam Blyth, a distant cousin, had agreed to act as a guarantor for a credit facility for Johnson.