Boris Johnson to make changes to ministerial code

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Boris Johnson is issuing a ministerial code rule change; current rules to allow ministers to avoid resigning if they happen to break the ministerial code, allowing them to be able to instead 'apologise or temporarily lose their pay'.

The prime minister, who himself has many accusations of breaking code, officials published a policy statement on today saying that it is "disproportionate to expect that any breach, however minor, should lead automatically to resignation or dismissal".

The new ministerial code has today been published, and it contains information suggesting that in the future, all ministers are now supposed to issue and give  "public apology, remedial action, or removal of ministerial salary for a period" , but only if the prime minister himself still remains confident in their abilities to continue work.

A main reason for the rule change is to  "avoid incentives for trivial or vexatious complaints, which may be made for partisan reasons", this is all following a recent public affair on huge amounts of ministerial code breaches concerning party gate and a lot of things which happened whilst the country were under covid protocol,

The change came soon when Boris Johnson has been facing speculation into whether he misled parliament by claiming there were 'no parties in No 10 during lockdown and that the rules were followed at all times'. Which was soon after found out to be extremely false; which has all come to light within the public eye recently