individual ministerial responsibility

Question 1

what is IMR?

Answer 1

the responsibility of a minister to resign when they break the ministerial code.

Question 2

Amber Rudd IMR

Answer 2

2017 Windrush scandal - resigned after she lied to the HoC and was caught

Question 3

Priti Patel IMR

Answer 3

2017 Conflict of Interest meeting with israel without parliamentary approval - resigned after 3 days of apology

Question 4

Priti Patel NOT IMR

Answer 4

Not resigning when bullying members of 3 government departments - Alex Allan resigned in protest

Question 4

Matt Hancock both Not and IMR

Answer 4

2021 - Kissing an aide, Gina Coladangelo, during Covid - Breach of rules and inappropriate - Initially did not resign and Johnson declared matter ‘closed’ with apology but then resigned a day later - not legitimacy to stay in position

Question 5

Boris Johnson NOT IMR

Answer 5

• changed the code so ministers only need to apologise not resign
• removed references to integrity, honsety, transparency - ministers at partygate not held accountable
• Chris Pincher affair - Johnson lied and said ‘not aware of Pincher allegations’ - caught but not resigned
• resigned after massive pressure due to partygate

Question 6

Chris Pincher IMR

Answer 6

2022 Drunk and harassed 2 men and resigned the next day - 30 June

Question 7

Michael Gove NOT IMR

Answer 7

Broke law with Cummings by awarding Public First company 560k pounds - did not initially resign, was fired by Johnson later

Question 8

Theresa Coffey IMR

Answer 8

Theresa Coffey resigned in 2023 when she was not doing good work in her department and sewage in public water was a big issue

Question 9

Kwasi Karteng IMR

Answer 9

sacked as chancellor of Truss’s government after disastrous mini-budget

Question 10

Tulip Siddiq IMR

Answer 10

resigned in 2025 due to familial ties to an anti-corruption investigation in Bangladesh - was misleading Parliament and not functioning properlu

Question 11

Louise Haigh IMR

Answer 11

resigned in Nov 2024 as Starmer’s transport sec - over a 2013 incident - fraud case - where she was mugged, declared a government phone missing but then found it but didn’t inform the police before turning it on - resigned to rpevent distraction to delivering work of the government

Question 12

Andrew Gwynne IMR

Answer 12

fired as Parliamentary under-secretary of state for Public Health and Prevention after offensive whatsapp messages resurfaced - racial, sexist, antisemitic messages about constituents and MPs

Question 13

Dominic Raab IMR

Answer 13

resigned in 2023 over bullying allegations and ‘aggressive conduct’ towards officials - from 2 complaints

Question 14

dominic raab Not IMR

Answer 14

did not resign after being on holiday during taliban takeobver - delegated calls to junior minsters, could have changed how it played out