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Personal scandal- breaks of ministerial code 2010
Matt Hancock 2020, breaking COVID laws and resigned as Health Secretary.
Dominic Cummings, drove over 200 miles to Durham, breaking COVID regulations
Priti Pratel, had a meeting with foreign governments without civil servants present. Failed to tell May about 14 meetings with Israeli ministers.
Disagreeing with collective responsibility over policy:
Robin Cook and Iraq war:Didn’t want war with Iraq which was damaging to Blair’s reputation.
Kwasi Kwarteng (finance minister; Oct 22): Resigned over disagreeing with Liz Truss’s budget proposals which included a top band rate of income tax.
Individual responsibility - accepting responsibility for injustice whithin their departments/inability to deliver a policy promise
Claire Perry 2016: (rail minister) Her fault for lack of reliability and overcrowding, resigned a week later.
Political pressure:
Andrew Mitchell,(then chief whip) and ‘plebgate’ 2012 : was rude in an altercation to police, and was forced to resign.
Liz Trust: loads of pressure and lack of support from ministers.
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