LONDON – UK parliament’s standards regulator has launched a high-level investigation against current Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson for a £15,000 trip to Mustique – a Caribbean island.
According to British media reports, the Parliamentary Commissioner of the watchdog is looking into the luxury trip to the privately owned island by the UK leader and his fiancee Carrie Symonds in the year 2020.
Johnson, 56, who has been in limelight over a number of controversies also draws the attention of investigators when he failed to provide any proper channel for the hefty payment he made for the expensive tour to the Caribbean.
Johnson earlier declared that he had travelled with his partner, Carrie Symonds, from Dec. 26, 2019, to Jan. 5, 2020, while as per the submitted details, 15,000 GBP worth of accommodation was provided by David Ross – the Carphone Warehouse retail chain co-founder.
Ross initially refused to pay for the trip but later clarified that the register was accurate and that he had facilitated accommodation.
Reports suggested that Johnson was being investigated in wake of dodgy answers related to travel outside Britain. Lawmakers in the UK must submit all foreign tours if they have not been paid for personally or by the state.
Last month in April, the country’s electoral watchdog also launched a probe into refurbishments to the Johnson official residence at Downing Street claiming that there were reasonable grounds to suspect.
The 56-year-old when asked denied any wrongdoing and told that he has paid for the renovation costs around 200,000 pounds but declined to give further details.
The Electoral Commission is looking at whether PM took an undeclared loan from a political donor to cover the mammoth cost while Johnson’s office has failed to deny reports that he initially received a loan.
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