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Bob Stewart Excerpts

Thursday 22nd July 2021 Commons Chamber

[Mr Deputy Speaker]

Let us see whether a miracle has happened and we can hear Colonel Bob Stewart.

[Bob Stewart (Beckenham) (Con) [V]]

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I hope that the miracle has happened.

[Mr Deputy Speaker]

It has.

[Bob Stewart]

I want to apologise to the House. Yesterday, the Committee on Standards adjudged that I and four other MPs were wrong to write a joint letter to two senior judges, copied to the judge who was about to hear a case, followed by further letters to the Lord Chief Justice and the case judge, which it concluded were an attempt to try to influence the way references in court cases were made public. I now know that it was wrong to do so. I regret it and I repeat my apology to the House.