MPs and transparency campaigners have urged the prime minister to explain her husband’s links to an elite property fixer after discrepancies emerged in her official transparency records.
The revelations come as Liz Truss battles to remain in power after just 38 days in the job, having scrapped the tax policies that defined her leadership campaign and fired her chancellor and close ally Kwasi Kwarteng.
Truss, who in her ministerial career has formally declared almost no financial or familial interests, said in a submission to the List of Ministers’ interests that her husband Hugh O’Leary worked at a company called Arrakis Investments Limited – yet documents filed with Companies House say the firm at the time had no employees other than its one director.
