Lisa Nandy, the Secretary of Culture, apologized to Keir Starmer after he found an inquiry led by him and labor of a new regulator of football that brought a new regulator of football that brought a nomination of a nominee before he prepared him for the role.
Nandy said he regrets the mistakes highlighted by A report by William Shawcrossthe Commissioner for public appointees. His apology comes a week after the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, made her own written apology to the prime minister for failing to obtain a license before renting to her family.
In a letter to Nandy, Starmer said he accepted the apology, but was aware of the process of appointing media executive David Kogan “and said his department had lessons from it.
The rebuke did not affect the role of Kogan, whose long career in Sport and Media includes negotiating TV rights for the Premier League and the football league.
He was confirmed last month as the head of football’s independent regulator, a fan-friendly wardog in the first plans to collapse Supered in Europe, and has taken advantage of the toil.
Following the conflict of interest, Nandy stepped down from any role in deciding whether to award the Pole Koan.
Yet another embarrassment to the Starmer government, especially soon after the Reeves failed to get his family to move on the road after the election.
In his 18-page report, Shawcross said Nandy had breached the governance code on public appointments in three ways: not immediately declaring that Kogan had donated twice to her unsuccessful 2020 campaign to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labor leader; it was not mentioned when he interviewed her for the role; And it won’t declare Kogan’s larger donations to labor, including Starmer’s leadership campaign.
Nandy said he did not know at the time that Kogan had donated anything even to him. However, Shawcross said in the report that Kogan’s known links to labor, Nandy “need to be discussed and determined whether he made donations to her”.
The report said Nandy and other ministers should be “reminded of their duties to declare and resolve any interests and relationships which they have with a candidate participating in a campaign regulated by the governance code”, recommending that the Cabinet Office and Shawcross work together to avoid a similar situation happening again.
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Nandy, in his letter to Starmer, said that he had taken “strong steps” to begin the process of recognizing the nominations, but I apologized for this mistake, but I did not look for it.
In response, Starmer said he accepted a mistake, adding: “I know you are a person who has a person who acts to stop dealing with an agreement in a conflict of interest.
“However, the process was not entirely up to the standard expected and I welcome the willingness of your Department of the Commissioner and the Cabinet Office to learn the lessons and improve the guidance of the management of interests.”