Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 18 April 2023

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1. Sunak faces standards probe

Rishi Sunak is being investigated by Parliament’s standards watchdog over a possible failure to declare an interest when first asked. The prime minister is facing a series of questions over a potential breach of transparency rules relating to his links to a childcare firm in which his wife is an investor. “On the Richter scale of these things, it feels like a rather minor tremor,” said Chris Mason, political editor of the BBC. However, opposition parties said the investigation was a sign sleaze had returned to No 10.

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