Caroline Lucas
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Easter Recess: Government Update
Caroline Lucas Excerpts(2 years, 9 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
I think the best thing the Government can do is to continue to deliver on the promises that we made to the British people, and that is what we are doing.
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion) (Green)
The respected constitutional historian Lord Peter Hennessy reminds us that it is the Prime Minister who is the guardian of the ministerial code. What can we do to protect that code when the person who is entrusted with guarding it breaks the code and its overarching duty to comply with the law, and becomes, in the words of Lord Hennessy, “a rogue Prime Minister”?
The Prime Minister
I do not agree with that characterisation. I have explained to the House why I spoke as I did, and I have apologised for the mistake that I made.