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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech to members of Team GB and Paralympics GB during a reception in the garden of 10 Downing Street
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Starmer’s freebie row: How can we fix standards and ethics in public life?

The IfG’s standards expert Tim Durrant joins The Expert Factor to explore how how the standards system works

How angry should people be about Keir Starmer’s free gift list? How does a confusing set of rules governing standards and ethics in public life actually work? Whatever happened to Labour's grand plans for reform? And what can the PM due to reset the narrative?

The IfG’s standards expert Tim Durrant joins Hannah and Anand to get beyond the row over Keir Starmer’s new suits and Arsenal tickets and explore how the standards system works - and often doesn’t - and what could be done to fix it.

Political party
Labour
Position
Prime minister
Department
Number 10
Public figures
Keir Starmer
Publisher
Institute for Government

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