Levelling up secretary set to deliver speech this morning and threaten to remove London mayor’s powers over planning
Michael Gove, the levelling up secretary, is announcing his new planning rules in a speech outside parliament, not in a statement to MPs. This appears to be a breach of the ministerial code which says “the most important announcements of government policy should be made in the first instance, in parliament” – although Gove is also making a written ministerial statement, so MPs will get the chance to read the details as Gove gives a speech attended by journalists.
According to Sky’s Beth Rigby, some MPs are very unhappy about this.
Gove giving a keynote speech in housing policy in central London rather than to Houses of Parliament: A former cabinet minister tells me there’s “lots of unhappiness” that he’s giving speech and not speaking in Parliament. “One of the most blatant breaches of the Ministerial Code I’ve seen,” says source
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