Easter Recess: Government Update Debate

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Easter Recess: Government Update

Carol Monaghan Excerpts
Tuesday 19th April 2022

(2 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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May I respectfully say to the hon. Member that I think the real choice that this Government —this House of Commons—should follow is getting on with the job of serving the people we were elected to serve and helping them with the costs of living? That is what we are doing.

Carol Monaghan Portrait Carol Monaghan (Glasgow North West) (SNP)
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At Prime Minister’s questions on Wednesday 8 December, the Prime Minister said

“there was no party and…no covid rules were broken.”—[Official Report, 8 December 2021; Vol. 705, c. 372.]

Today, he refers to his lawbreaking as a “mistake”. Can the Prime Minister explain to my constituents, and indeed to children across these isles, what the difference is between a lie and a mistake?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I have apologised deeply for what I got wrong, and I have explained to the House why I spoke as I did on that occasion and others.