The government’s director of propriety and ethics has “tightened internal processes” after David Cameron’s taxpayer-funded Number 10 email newsletter was used to claim that Labour were “on the side of Britain’s something for nothing culture.”
While the email is billed as a “news roundup or a personal message” from David Cameron, party political lines are prohibited in the email, the production of which is supposedly overseen by civil servants.
It looks like this line was slipped in by a Number 10 special advisor:
“While we’ve been putting in place a sensible, modern welfare system that protects the vulnerable, our opponents have shown they are on the side of Britain’s something for nothing culture.”
Sue Gray, who has previously headed up ethics investigations on Liam Fox and Hazel Blears, ruled that the email was in breach of civil service rules.
Hilariously, Cameron’s message railed against the “abuse” of taxpayers’ money.
