Given the PM has the ultimate responsibility for the Ministerial Code and, in effect, marks his own homework, coupled with this arrangement being predicated on the assumption that the PM at least has integrity, which the current one manifestly doesn't, isn't it about time this system was reviewed?
I would suggest that, as the Monarch's role is largely ceremonial and the incumbent is renowned for being politically impartial - in fact it has been her hallmark for her entire reign - the Monarch should be placed in charge of the Ministerial Code, and its policing. Ministers are, after all, her ministers and her family crest appears at the top of the Ministerial Code. It would at least give the Monarch something important to do, rather than merely being a cypher to whatever malfeasance the government wants to get up to. It could even rejuvenate the Monarchy with an important constitutional role.
Yes, I know she's probably the ultimate Champagne Socialist, but she doesn't make it known. If she or her heirs were put in charge of the Ministerial Code, then the Monarch would become, in effect, the Tribune of the Plebs, despite not being a pleb in the remotest sense.
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