Swinney: Reeves shows ‘deeply troubling carelessness’

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Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney has accused Chancellor Rachel Reeves of showing “a level of carelessness” over her failure to obtain a rental licence for her London property. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I understand that the Prime Minister's independent advisor has indicated that he does not believe

00:07there is a basis for an investigation and I take the view that independent advisors are there to

00:13provide that advice to government so in this case if that's the view of the independent ethics advisor

00:18then I think that's what should prevail. I think there's a there's a level of carelessness that

00:25has been demonstrated by the Chancellor which I think is is deeply troubling and also it's

00:32further evidence of the fact that this Labour government is really not any different to its

00:38Conservative predecessors because the the problems about ministerial conduct that are bedeviling

00:44the Prime Minister and the financial arrangements of various cabinet members are just a carbon copy

00:52of what was going on under the Conservatives so there may be a change of government but the story remains the same

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