PMQs live: Rishi Sunak to face Keir Starmer as Labour leader plays down drop in poll lead

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PMQs Photograph: HoC/HOCRishi Sunak leaving No 10 ahead of PMQs. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PARishi Sunak to face Keir Starmer at PMQs

PMQs is starting in five minutes.

Cabinet Office publishes long-awaited updated list of minister’s interests, mentioning Sunak’s wife’s Koru Kids shareholding

The Cabinet Office has just published the revised list of ministers’ interests. This is the document that is supposed get updated every six months, but which has not been updated for around a year – partly because it’s the job of the No 10 independent adviser on ministes’ interests (aka, the ethics adviser), and for months the post was empty because two of Boris Johnson’s resigned, and then he gave up trying to find a replacement.

The timing is convenient. As often happens, the approach of PMQs forces the Whitehall machine to cough up something whose absence could cause embarassment for the PM at the dispatch box.

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This article was written by Andrew Sparrow and originally published on www.theguardian.com