Ministerial Code: Investigation of Potential Breach Debate

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Ministerial Code: Investigation of Potential Breach

Ben Bradshaw Excerpts
Tuesday 23rd May 2023

(11 months, 2 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Quin Portrait Jeremy Quin
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You will appreciate, Mr Speaker, that I am not in any position to comment on the kind of allegations that the hon. Gentleman is making. I am not in a position to make any comment on that whatsoever. That is for another occasion.

Ben Bradshaw Portrait Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter) (Lab)
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Will the Minister update the House on the status of the special advisers’ code, given that the Home Secretary’s special adviser apparently lied repeatedly to journalists, in clear breach of the special advisers’ code, yet the Prime Minister and the Cabinet Secretary have done absolutely nothing—[Interruption.]

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. If hon. Members want a conversation, they should please take it outside and not across the Chamber.