
Westminster sleaze
Can Boris win back voters’ trust?
This week in Westminster has been decidedly “swampy”, say Esther Webber and Emilio Casalicchio in Politico. In a growing sleaze scandal, Tory MP Geoffrey Cox was accused of earning thousands by working as a lawyer from the sunny British Virgin Islands instead of attending to constituents back home. And Cox is not the only part-timer in the House of Commons to be outed. Meanwhile, Boris Johnson is at the centre of inquiries into how his Caribbean holiday and Downing Street flat refurb were paid for.