Now freebies loophole set to close

BORIS Johnson would have to come clean about details of his free luxury holidays under proposals for a new Westminster standards regime, to be unveiled tomorrow.

A report from the Commons Standards Committee will propose changes to MPs’ code of conduct.

Mr Johnson has been accused of using a loophole to avoid revealing the value of a free stay at a Spanish villa by not declaring it in the MPs’ register of interests.

Instead, he declared the holiday at the villa, owned by the family of Zac Goldsmith, in the Ministers’ register, which did not require him to reveal the value.

But the Standards Committee is expected to suggest that Ministers should declare their outside interests in both registers in future.

Mr Johnson declared that the villa outside Marbella, which reportedly costs up to £25,000 a week to rent, had been ‘provided free of charge by the Goldsmiths’.

No 10 has already insisted that the Prime Minister had followed all transparency rules.