LONDON: The deputy leader of Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party, Richard Tice, is under investigation over a possible failure to declare an interest, a parliamentary watchdog said on Monday, three months after it opened an inquiry into the party’s leader.
Tice said on X the investigation was over whether he should have declared the interest at the start of a debate on UK democracy and Israeli influence, and said it was based on a complaint by what he described as an “anti Israel” lobby group.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards did not go into details on the investigation, but said it related torule six of the parliamentary code of conduct, which states:
“Members (of parliament) must always be open and frank in declaring any relevant interest in any proceeding of the House or its Committees, and in any communications with Ministers, Members, public officials or public office holders.”
An investigation by the commissioner does not mean that rules have been broken.
