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Originally Posted by Neil
I agree, as long as he declared the interest initially.
Councillors declaring an interest in whatever they are doing is an essential part of how local/national government works. Without these rules in place we would open the flood gates for all sorts of unsavoury actions. I am not saying Graham did anything intentionally wrong by the way. From comments on here it looks as though he did declare an interest. The debate appears to be when he did.
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It appears with a lot of posts in this thread that the rule of declaring an interest, is nothing to worry about, but it is, as I think all the elected representatives on here will testify to, this rule is there for a very good reason and shouldn't be taken lightly