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Political scandals in the United Kingdom are commonly referred to by the press and commentators as "'sleaze". ==Sleaze== A number of political scandals in the 1980s and 1990s created the impression of what was described in the British press as "sleaze": a perception that the then Conservative government was associated with political corruption and hypocrisy.
Councillors' expenses?" Although prior to the catastrophic collapse of the towers, the phrase "a good day to bury bad news" (not actually used by Moore) has since been used to refer to other instances of attempting to hide one item of news behind a more publicised issue. In 2002, Edwina Currie revealed that she had had an affair, beginning in 1984, with John Major before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Political scandals in the United Kingdom are commonly referred to by the press and commentators as "'sleaze". ==Sleaze== A number of political scandals in the 1980s and 1990s created the impression of what was described in the British press as "sleaze": a perception that the then Conservative government was associated with political corruption and hypocrisy.
This was revived in the late 1990s due to accounts of so-called "sleaze" by the Labour government. ==List of scandals== ===1890s=== Liberator Building Society scandal, in which the Liberal Party MP Jabez Balfour was exposed as running several fraudulent companies to conceal financial losses.
Tessa Jowell, Labour cabinet minister, was embroiled in a scandal about a property remortgage allegedly arranged to enable her husband, David Mills, to realise £350,000 from an off-shore hedge fund, money he allegedly received as a gift following testimony he had provided for Silvio Berlusconi in the 1990s.
Hayes had met Young Conservative Paul Stone at the 1991 Conservative conference and that same evening, "committed a lewd act which was in breach of the law at the time".
Stone had been 18 at the time, whilst the legal age for homosexual sex in 1991 was 21.
Councillors' expenses?" Although prior to the catastrophic collapse of the towers, the phrase "a good day to bury bad news" (not actually used by Moore) has since been used to refer to other instances of attempting to hide one item of news behind a more publicised issue. In 2002, Edwina Currie revealed that she had had an affair, beginning in 1984, with John Major before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
On 17 July 2003, Kelly, an employee of the Ministry of Defence, apparently committed suicide after being misquoted by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan as saying that Tony Blair's Labour government had knowingly "sexed up" the "September Dossier", a report into Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.
(He again served as a cabinet minister under Theresa May.) ==== 2012 ==== Conservative Party 'cash for access' scandal involving Peter Cruddas and Sarah Southern, March 2012. In February 2012 Liberal Democrat MP Chris Huhne resigned from the Cabinet when he was charged with perverting the course of justice over a 2003 speeding case.
The government was cleared of wrongdoing, while the BBC was strongly criticised by the subsequent inquiry, leading to the resignation of the BBC's chairman and director-general. In April 2004, Beverly Hughes was forced to resign as minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Counter Terrorism when it was shown that she had been informed of procedural improprieties concerning the granting of visas to certain categories of workers from Eastern Europe.
She had earlier told the House of Commons that if she had been aware of such facts she would have done something about it. In 2005, David McLetchie, leader of the Scottish Conservatives, was forced to resign after claiming the highest taxi expenses of any MSP.
In March 2006 it emerged that the Labour Party had borrowed millions of pounds in 2005 to help fund their general election campaign.
He called on the Electoral Commission to investigate the issue of political parties taking out loans from non-commercial sources. Following revelations about Dr Chai Patel and others who were recommended for peerages after lending the Labour party money, the Treasurer of the party, Jack Dromey said he had not been involved and did not know the party had secretly borrowed millions of pounds in 2005.
It was reported that in 2005 the leader of the SNP had claimed £400 per month food expenses for two months while Westminster was in recess and he had spent most of his time in Scotland on First Minister duties. United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal (2009).
In March 2006 it emerged that the Labour Party had borrowed millions of pounds in 2005 to help fund their general election campaign.
Peter Watt resigned as the General Secretary of the party the day after the story broke and was quoted as saying that he knew about the arrangement but had not appreciated that he had failed to comply with the reporting requirements. On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts (Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police. Derek Conway (2008).
It also led to questions about the Prime Minister's honesty with party donors' known tax statuses as Lord Ashcroft suggested he had openly discussed his non-domiciled status with him in 2009, earlier than previously thought. ==== 2016 ==== On 6 July 2016, the Iraq Inquiry (also known as the Chilcot Inquiry) was published.
By resigning Laws became the shortest serving Minister in modern British political history with less than 18 days' service as a Cabinet Minister. ==== 2011 ==== On 14 October 2011 Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox resigned from the Cabinet after he "mistakenly allowed the distinction between personal interest and [his government activities to become blurred" over his friendship with Adam Werrity.
(He again served as a cabinet minister under Theresa May.) ==== 2012 ==== Conservative Party 'cash for access' scandal involving Peter Cruddas and Sarah Southern, March 2012. In February 2012 Liberal Democrat MP Chris Huhne resigned from the Cabinet when he was charged with perverting the course of justice over a 2003 speeding case.
She was criticised by fellow Labour Party MPs, including leader Ed Miliband who said her tweet conveyed a "sense of disrespect". ==== 2015 ==== In September 2015, Lord Ashcroft published a biography of David Cameron, which suggested that the then Prime Minister took drugs regularly and performed an "outrageous initiation ceremony" which involved inserting "a private part of his anatomy" into the mouth of a dead pig during his time in university.
She was subsequently recalled by petition, the first MP to be removed by this process since it was introduced in 2015. Conservative MP Boris Johnson was accused of Islamophobia and racism by several MPs and civil society groups for a 2018 satirical article in The Daily Telegraph, where he criticised women wearing burqas and compared them to "bank robbers" and "letterboxes".
It also led to questions about the Prime Minister's honesty with party donors' known tax statuses as Lord Ashcroft suggested he had openly discussed his non-domiciled status with him in 2009, earlier than previously thought. ==== 2016 ==== On 6 July 2016, the Iraq Inquiry (also known as the Chilcot Inquiry) was published.
Reported In The Scotsman ==== 2017 ==== In 2017 the contaminated blood scandal, in which many haemophiliacs died from infected Factor medicine, hit the headlines and Parliament with allegations of a "industrial scale" criminal cover-up.
In January 2017, the scandal caused the resignation of the deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, after Foster refused to stand aside as First Minister pending an investigation, collapsing the Executive Office and triggering an early election of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The Guardian reported that Hunt was able to buy seven luxury flats at Alexandra Wharf, Southampton, with the help of a bulk discount from property developer and Conservative donor Nicholas James Roach. Several links between Cambridge Analytica and high-profile donors to both the Conservative Party and the Leave.EU campaign resulted in a scandal. In December 2018 Labour MP Fiona Onasanya was convicted of perverting the course of justice for lying to police to avoid a speeding fine.
She was subsequently recalled by petition, the first MP to be removed by this process since it was introduced in 2015. Conservative MP Boris Johnson was accused of Islamophobia and racism by several MPs and civil society groups for a 2018 satirical article in The Daily Telegraph, where he criticised women wearing burqas and compared them to "bank robbers" and "letterboxes".
She was expelled from her party and in January 2019 she was imprisoned for three months.
It was suggested that the scandal undermined the public's compliance with pandemic restrictions. In 2020, Home Secretary Priti Patel was found in a Cabinet Office inquiry to have broken ministerial code following several allegations of bullying civil servants.
Sturgeon disputed the allegations, arguing that while mistakes had been made, her government acted appropriately. Eric Joyce, former Labour representative for Falkirk, was found guilty of possessing indecent images of children as young as five and on 7 July 2020, pleaded guilty at Ipswich Crown Court to making a Category-A indecent film of a child.
On 7 August he was given a suspended prison sentence. ==== 2021 ==== The Greensill scandal, where former Prime Minister David Cameron approached a number of government ministers on behalf of Greensill Capital to lobby for the company to receive Covid Corporate Financing Facility loans. ==See also== List of British politicians who have crossed the floor ==References== United Kingdom United Kingdom politics-related lists Political scandals
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