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Simon defends PM marking own homework on flat probe
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The Cabinet Secretary today dismissed complaints that Boris Johnson is marking his own homework by taking final decisions on whether ministers have broken conduct rules.
Simon Case played down the backlash after the PM refused to give his new ministerial standards adviser Lord Geidt the final say on the code.
The peer, a former private secretary to the Queen, is in the middle of an investigation into how renovations on Mr Johnson s grace-and-favour Downing Street flat were funded.
The premier has refused to engage with questions over whether Tory funds were originally used without being declared, before Mr Johnson later repaid the costs.