Ministerial Code: Investigation of Potential Breach

Charles Walker Excerpts

Tuesday 23rd May 2023 Commons Chamber

[Jeremy Quin]

There is nothing incorrect with the process, which is being conducted properly and professionally. The Prime Minister will gather the information and then decide the next steps. It is very simple.

[Sir Charles Walker (Broxbourne) (Con)]

I have an admission to make: the Home Secretary is not on my Christmas card list, and I am certainly not on hers. I hope this is a question and not a statement: I find it hard to get my head around the fact that the BBC sent its political editor halfway across the world, to a G7 summit where energy security, Ukraine and defence were being discussed, to ask our Prime Minister a question about a speed awareness course. This is the question: why?

[Jeremy Quin]

As my hon. Friend is well aware, the BBC is editorially completely independent, but I absolutely hear what he says.