Crooked Ministers

[SueEllen]

Shell shares as environment secretary...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66469317

A former environment secretary has revealed she failed to declare tens of thousands of pounds of shares she held in oil giant Shell while in the role.

Tory MP Theresa Villiers said she had held a stake in the firm worth over £70,000 since February 2018.

But she only declared it last month along with similar holdings in drinks giant Diageo and finance firm Experian.

She "deeply" regretted "her failure to monitor the value of shareholdings", a spokesman told the Daily Mirror.

MPs are meant to declare all shareholdings worth over £70,000

[Zigenare]

Shell shares as environment secretary...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66469317

A former environment secretary has revealed she failed to declare tens of thousands of pounds of shares she held in oil giant Shell while in the role.

Tory MP Theresa Villiers said she had held a stake in the firm worth over £70,000 since February 2018.

But she only declared it last month along with similar holdings in drinks giant Diageo and finance firm Experian.

She "deeply" regretted "her failure to monitor the value of shareholdings", a spokesman told the Daily Mirror.

MPs are meant to declare all shareholdings worth over £70,000

Also from the article...

When Ms Villiers joined Defra, she told the department about her shares and offered to put them in a "blind" trust, where she would not have known how the money was invested, the spokesman said.

However the prime minister's ethics adviser at the time, Sir Alex Allan, advised her this was unnecessary because "the portfolio was managed for her and she did not take investment decisions", he added.

"Nothing she did as [environment] secretary was influenced by any of these shareholdings," the spokesman said.

The shareholdings she held during her time as environment secretary did not appear on the separate ministerial register of interests published during her time in the job.

"Nothing she has ever said or done as MP has been influenced by these shareholdings," he added, but she was "taking steps to ensure that this never happens again".

You're rather disingenuos in your quoting SE - your not so unconscious bias fighting its way through again.

[BlueSharp]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...migration-role


If it looks like nepotism, and smells like nepotism then it probably is...

[vetran]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...migration-role


If it looks like nepotism, and smells like nepotism then it probably is...

seems qualified?

Bas Javid, currently a deputy assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan police, has been appointed director general of immigration enforcement.

[SueEllen]

You're rather disingenuos in your quoting SE - your not so unconscious bias fighting its way through again.

Funny thing is I heard the story on Nick Ferrari's - that well-known left wing radio host's - Breakfast Show stated in a similar way to what I posted it.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/theresa-v...-shares-shell/

[vetran]

Funny thing is I heard the story on Nick Ferrari's - that well-known left wing radio host's - Breakfast Show stated in a similar way to what I posted it.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/theresa-v...-shares-shell/

he did mention she had taken advice from the experts but it was too juicy to let it go.

[Zigenare]

Funny thing is I heard the story on Nick Ferrari's - that well-known left wing radio host's - Breakfast Show stated in a similar way to what I posted it.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/theresa-v...-shares-shell/

Jesus wept.