Lisa Nandy, the UK’s Secretary of State on Friday apologised to Prime Minister Keir Starmer after she was found to have “unknowingly” breached the country’s public appointment rules when appointing England’s new football watchdog. The Independent Commissioner for Public Appointments, Sir William Shawcross, concluded in his report that the appointment of David last month breached the governance code as he had made two donations totalling 2,900 pounds to the British Indian minister’s Labour leadership campaign five years ago. “The Commissioner finds that she has unknowingly breached the Code. She should have carried out that check and taken any necessary consequential action before selecting him,” Shawcross notes in his findings.
