Downing Street Parties: Police Investigation

Andrew Gwynne Excerpts

Tuesday 25th January 2022 Commons Chamber

[Michael Ellis]

If there is anything ironic, it is the Scottish National party.

[Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish) (Lab)]

I remind the Minister that it started with a joke about a fictional party during a dummy press conference. Then there was the faux outrage from the Prime Minister, who was angry about that joke. All the while, there were parties—lots of them—and he was at some of them. There is a mountain of evidence of truth twisting, rule bending and lawbreaking, and it lands at the feet of the man at the top. Why is the Minister still defending the indefensible?

[Michael Ellis]

I see that the hon. Gentleman wishes to be judge, jury and executioner, but no one in this House would give him that position. What matters is justice—justice for all—and that will apply in this case as it does in any other.