Parliamentary Commissioner

The parliamentary commissioner for standards declined to comment.

Reviewing the investigation, the parliamentary commissioner for standards said the MP's claim of mutual flirting was "contradicted by the complainant’s evidence and by that of the two eyewitnesses".

A Treasury minister's failure to register a London rental property has been deemed as "inadvertent" by the parliamentary commissioner for standards.

The parliamentary commissioner for standards added that the MP had acknowledged and apologised for her breaches of the Code of Conduct and outlined the measures she had put in place to avert a future late registration.

A Labour spokesperson said: “Tulip has apologised for the late registrations, which the parliamentary commissioner for standards accepted were inadvertent and offered to rectify without referring to the committee on standards.”