Catherine West
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(2 years, 9 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
What we will do is wait until the police have concluded their inquiries, and then see what more we can publish. That is what we are going to do.
Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green) (Lab)
As the Prime Minister will recall, during Prime Minister’s Question Time on 8 December, I asked
“whether there was a party in Downing Street on 13 November”.—[Official Report, 8 December 2021; Vol. 705, c. 379.]
Now the report says, as one of the bullet points on the first page, that there was
“a gathering in the No 10 Downing Street flat”
and
“a gathering in No 10 Downing Street on the departure of a special adviser”.
Did the Prime Minister inadvertently mislead this House? Will he put us all out of our agony, and stop dragging democracy through the mud?
The Prime Minister
I stick by what I said to the hon. Lady, and if she cares about democracy and due process, she should wait until the inquiry has been concluded.