This is Rishi’s third conflict in as many weeks. Here we go again . . . so soon!

As we all know, Rishi Sunak’s wife is part of an incredibly wealthy family; her father's company, Infosys, announced that on 10th May 2023 they had done a massive billion dollar deal with BP “Infosys and bp deepen their relationship to Transform bp’s Digital Application Landscape”. And 82 days later, Rishi Sunak offers out 100 licences (31st July 2023) to oil and gas companies.

A conflict of interest?

Prior to this, we have Mr Sunak’s confirmed breach of the parliamentary code when he “inadvertently” failed to properly declare Mrs Sunak’s business investments in a child care company, which was set to benefit from his Government’s funding. Apparently, he confused the rules on registering and declaring interests.

Or a conflict of interest?

Now just before the G20 summit in in New Delhi, it looks as if a trade deal will be done with India. Who in the UK will benefit? Not necessarily the British people, i.e. not the people who Rishi Sunak should be working on behalf of as our Prime Minister, BUT Infosys. Indian IT companies, including Infosys, are already among the biggest users of the UK work visa system. Therefore when the deal is done, which will include increased migration to the UK, more money is made for Sunak’s portfolio.

How is this acceptable?

Are we really alright with this?

This is corruption in plain sight and it just begs the question who is Sunak working for?

Is he working for us, the British? I'm sure he'd say he's working for us! (Personally, I don’t think he's saying that, but that’s just my opinion.)

So, this is the third problem for our current Prime Minister, who seems to have only been in office for 5 minutes longer than Liz Truss - but surely the appearance of corruption is something which he should be avoiding. 

We’ve seen this trend just growing and growing and growing. With the Conservatives, it appears their friends and their families tend to be the main beneficiaries of the trade deals, the legislation , the procurement . . . We know it was abundant during COVID, but we have now reached the point where we can clearly see they are actual unable to govern themselves!

If I were him and this was my family's business, I would be going above and beyond to be saying to them “No”; when you're in this position orchestrating the power dynamic, this conflict – perceived or actual - simply cannot happen. The way it looks, even if there is nothing untoward - it looks bad. It is all wrong.

If he wants us to think that he's trustworthy, he needs to be accountable; he needs to think about how this looks and it also begs the question, how much money is enough?