Sunday shows round-up: PM should resign if he broke Ministerial Code

Douglas Ross – PM should resign if he broke the Ministerial Code

Andrew Marr’s first guest of the day was Douglas Ross, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives. With potentially crucial elections being held all across the UK next week – including to Holyrood – the row about the Prime Minister’s arrangements to pay for the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat continues to rumble on. Marr asked Ross if he thought Boris Johnson should consider his position if the Electoral Commission finds him to have broken the Ministerial Code over the issue:

DR: Of course. I think people expect the highest standards of those in the highest office of the land. And that’s why I think people are looking at the investigations that are currently ongoing and waiting for the answers.