Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests Resignation Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests Resignation

Deidre Brock Excerpts
Thursday 16th June 2022

(2 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Ellis Portrait Michael Ellis
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I can only reiterate what I have said before.

Deidre Brock Portrait Deidre Brock (Edinburgh North and Leith) (SNP)
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Just a few of the political casualties of the Prime Minister’s premiership so far have been Allegra Stratton, who did not attend Downing Street parties; Lord Wolfson, on the principle that the PM should not breaks the laws he makes; the PM’s anti-corruption tsar; and now Lord Geidt, presumably—who knows, because the send button has not been used on the email—for being unable to hold the Prime Minister accountable for breaches of the ministerial code. When will someone actually responsible for the degeneration of standards in government be the one to go—namely, the Prime Minister?

Michael Ellis Portrait Michael Ellis
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I think the House will forgive me if I do not take lectures on moral probity from the Scottish nationalists. One needs only to google the SNP to have whole list of those incidents.