Keir Starmer to replace post-ministerial jobs watchdog with tougher regime

PM will bring in financial penalties for those who break rules and set up new independent ethics and integrity commission

Keir Starmer is to abolish the independent post-ministerial jobs watchdog, which has long been criticised as toothless", and - for the first time - financial penalties will be imposed on those who break the rules after leaving government.

As part of a standards overhaul that ministers hope will help improve public faith in the system, the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) will be scrapped and a tougher regime introduced.