Guernsey’s ministers resign en masse

Guernsey’s ministers resign en masse

Despite claiming earlier in the week that he had nothing to apologise for and that there was no question of the Policy Council – Guernsey’s equivalent to the Council of Ministers – stepping down, Chief Minister Laurie Morgan announced the decision yesterday. He had been criticised by two ministers who announced their own resignations before yesterday afternoon’s decision, and by a Welsh Audit Office report into the £2.4m Fallagate scandal. The scandal centres on the waste of £2.4 million of taxpayer’s money caused when building firm R G Falla withdrew their lowest bid to build a new hospital wing because of political tensions about the firm’s links to Commerce Minister Stuart Falla – who had announced his own resignation the day before the rest of the council followed suit. The firm’s bid was withdrawn after Treasury Minister Lyndon Trott cited a regulation prohibiting one firm having too many States contracts – he later admitted that there was no such regulation, and apologised – but as a result the States had to make up the difference between that bid and the next lowest, which came out at £2.4 million, or £50 for every man, woman and child in the island.

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