Christopher Geidt acknowledged he had felt ‘frustration’ in his job, noting that he was appointed by the prime minister and so was not ‘truly independent’.
has quit, weeks after an investigator’s report criticised the British leader for presiding over a culture of rule-breaking in government.
Boris Johnson still faces a parliamentary ethics probe that could conclude he deliberately misled parliament.Mr Geidt had stayed in his job as Mr Johnson was buffeted by allegations about his judgment and ethics culminating in the “partygate” scandal over parties in government buildings during Britain’s coronavirus lockdowns.
The resignation of his hand-picked ethics adviser is the latest blow for Mr Johnson, who survived a no-confidence vote by his own Conservative Party last week. He has been left a weakened leader after 41 per cent of Conservative MPs voted to remove him.
“For the prime minister to lose one adviser on ministers’ interests may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two looks like carelessness,” said Conservative MP William Wragg, a critic of Mr Johnson.
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