Downing Street has defended Prime Minister Liz Truss’s chief of staff Mark Fullbrook after it emerged he is being paid through his lobbying company instead of directly as a government employee.
The Cabinet Office said it is “not unusual” for a special adviser to join the government “on secondment” and that his salary is paid to a “seconding company.”
But the arrangement drew accusations of renewed “Tory sleaze” from opposition parties.
No 10 did not deny that Liz Truss’s top aide receives payments through Fullbrook Strategies, a private lobbying firm he set up in April, as The Sunday Times reported….