Osborne inquiry rejected
The parliamentary standards commissioner, John Lyon, has rejected calls to launch an inquiry into shadow chancellor George Osborne.
It is the second body which has decided against launching a probe, after the Electoral Commission similarly rejected calls from Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs.
“The commissioner has received a complaint about Mr Osborne and has not accepted it,” a spokesperson said.
Mr Osborne was dragged into controversy when his friend, Nathaniel Rothschild, wrote a letter to the Times claiming he had “solicited” donations from Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
Having now escaped two investigations and admitted regretting getting on Mr Deripaska’s yacht, the shadow chancellor appears to have drawn a line under the incident.
