Jez Higgins on Nostr: npub19lt42…6qfjk We require ministers to act in a dual capacity - as a member of ...

npub19lt4284mghqxekzm6n5njxurnxrxhqhrva2leusdsuu5ja5jeycq66qfjk (npub19lt…qfjk) We require ministers to act in a dual capacity - as a member of the party and separately as a minister of the crown. That's a bit of fiction, obviously, but we've agreed it as a society.

We also need to maintain the fiction. You can't simultaneously claim to be acting in a personal capacity while also using government funds to pay for the legal awkwardness arising.