Easter Recess: Government Update Debate

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Easter Recess: Government Update

Stephen Timms Excerpts
Tuesday 19th April 2022

(2 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I apologise again. I thank the public very much for what they did: by their collective action, they have helped us to keep covid at bay.

Stephen Timms Portrait Stephen Timms (East Ham) (Lab)
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But giving an apology and then carrying on is not being held to account. Does the Prime Minister recognise that there is a very serious problem for the long term in leaving a lawbreaker in charge of the lawmakers?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I have said what I have said. I apologise and want to say again to the House that when I spoke before in this Chamber about events in Downing Street, I spoke in good faith.