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.

Richard Tice is under investigation by the standards commissioner over a failure to declare an interest. This is a Breaking News story.

The standards commissioner confirmed that an investigation had been opened into allegations against the Reform UK deputy leader