UK ‘glasses for passes’ affair makes for bad optics

There is a scandal in the making in UK in the ‘glasses for passes’ affair now in its second week which does not look as though it will go away quietly.

The last thing the new Labour government wanted for its conference last week was to have to justify gifts of expensive glasses and clothing to the prime minister and his wife worth about £32,000 and counting – the latest addition of £16,000 was previously passed off as office expenses.

The facts are coming out in dribs and drabs...