Easter Recess: Government Update Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Easter Recess: Government Update

Florence Eshalomi Excerpts
Tuesday 19th April 2022

(2 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I completely accept that the police are right, and that is why I have paid the fine.

Florence Eshalomi Portrait Florence Eshalomi (Vauxhall) (Lab/Co-op)
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At every stage the Prime Minister has given the House and the public a different account or version of what happened until more revelations forced him to change his mind. The Prime Minister has outlined that he is sorry, and he should be sorry, because he almost died from this disease—and the staff at St Thomas’ Hospital in my constituency who treated him did not have a party for nine minutes. Does the Prime Minister not understand that he is a distraction? Constituents write to me about issues such as the cost of living and the crisis in Ukraine; will the Prime Minister do the decent thing and end this distraction by resigning?