Rishi Sunak breached parliament’s code of conduct by failing to properly declare his wife’s shareholding in a childcare company which stood to benefit from new government policy but did so inadvertently, parliament’s standards watchdog has concluded. An investigation was launched in April by Daniel Greenberg, parliament’s commissioner for standards, into a potential breach of transparency rules relating to his links to the firm Koru Kids, in which his wife, Akshata Murty, is an investor. Publishing the conclusions of his investigation on Wednesday, Greenberg said Sunak should have declared the shareholding when being questioned on the policy by the liaison committee of senior crossbench MPs on 28 March. But he said he was satisfied that the prime minister had confused the rules on registering and declaring interests. Parliament’s commissioner for standards said: “Having considered the information available to me, I have decided that the breach of the code appears to have been inadvertent. I confirm that the matter is now closed.” Greenberg, who can refer lawmakers who breach the rules to a committee that has the …

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