Labour Donor Gets Senior Treasury Post Under Rachel Reeves
Reeves trousered £5K from Ian Corfield last Summer and has now been appointed a plum job in the Treasury. A cynic might say that 5 grand was a fruitful investment by Corfield ...Pure coincidence or reward? You decide. A political donor who has made donations to Rachel Reeves, Labour’s new chancellor, has been made a director in the Treasury, prompting questions about the party’s stated commitment to high standards of public life. Former financial services executive Ian Corfield has donated more than £20,000 to senior Labour figures in the past decade, including a £5,000 contribution to Reeves last summer, according to Electoral Commission data.Donors and figures with party political connections are not barred from becoming senior officials in Whitehall. However, Sir Alistair Graham, former chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, warned: “You need to be particularly careful if somebody has been a donor that they’ve gone through a competitive process [to become a senior official].”The Treasury declined to release details on Corfield’s recruitment process.https://www.ft.com/content/85cb4ace-73f6-45ee-a3be-4e46839eaa12
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