The head of the government’s ethics watchdog has stepped down after it was revealed he once admitted grabbing a colleague’s breasts in a police station.
Stuart Sterling, 48, was the first chief executive of the Ethics and Integrity Commission, set up by former Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer last year to restore standards in public life.
But he quit this week pending an investigation when it emerged he was previously suspended from his job as a detective constable for sexual misconduct.
The disclosure is acutely embarrassing for the government as the commission was a key part of Labour’s mission to ‘reset’ and ‘clean
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