Politicians’ CVs - here we go again?

I thought that in order to succeed as a politician you had to be a consummate liar no matter which party you represented.

It is only lesser mortals in ordinary jobs with lower status and income who are expected to be honest and truthful.

Becoming an MP is one of the few if not the only job that doesn't require even a basic DBS check - not that that would uncover a dubious CV, only a criminal record.

Basic DBS doesn't reveal spent convictions but an advanced check would.

My issue with Reform MP James McMurdock and his "teenage indiscretion" of kicking hs girfriend, lying about it and then being sent to jail is that he now has access to places that he would never be allowed to work, such as schools and hospitals.

He also lied on his CV and lied as soon as he was elected claiming he would have to take a substantial pay cut to take up his job as an MP. His lies were exposed by the Byline Times and his former boss who explained that he was a junior administrator not to be trusted with anything important and not the six-figure-salary, hot-shot multi-billion deal-maker that he claimed to be.

I very much doubt that much checking is done. I just can’t understand the sheer stupidity of putting in the public domain statements which are so easily proven to be untrue. It doesn’t indicate any capacity for strategic thought, and we have seen how sadly lacking Reeves is in that department. Reynolds is of course one of her great supporters.

don't they do some sort of background checking on MPs?
I have an enhanced DBS check and they run thorough searches on your employment history. One of my references said they'd asked her about my personality, whether I had addiction issues and allsorts of stuff and I get the fraction of what an MP does (and I have less access to the general public

I would be interested to know why he quit his training contract. An MP’s career is precarious. Surely it’s a good thing to have something to fall back on. I’m very curious about that.

I don't see this as a party political matter. I see at as a potential losing - your - job matter.
When I was interviewing for teachers, the application form included a declaration that the candidate had been truthful. A discovery of an untruth led to one candidate being unsuccessful, so I gave her clear, unambiguous feedback that she needed to amend future applications.
If appointed on a lie, this could result in instant dismissal.

How very stupid. A lie which is so easily found out. So much for integrity.

Another one Keir Starmer on Jeremy Vine TV show during the run up to the election

promising to freeze energy bills when he is PM

Yes, Granny Gravy, you are so right. So much time spent destroying Boris Johnson over the heinous crime of eating and drinking with colleagues , while Starmer and his colleagues were doing precisely the same thing.

Perhaps he was the other sort of 'solicitor' .........just saying.

This was just discussed on ITV breakfast news.

Labour spent the months in the run up to the last GE electioneering as the party of truth and anti-sleaze , can we add that to their ever increasing list of lies?

Didn't seem to matter when Johnson lied about...just about everything.

Another one, it's becoming tedious. I should have applied I could write a good cv. Does as Rachel has it will fine, no worries.

Oh well, he’ll fit in well with the rest of them.