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Debate between Steve Reed and David Linden
Wednesday 24th June 2020

(5 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Linden Portrait David Linden
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I am grateful to the Secretary of State for the intervention. On that point, I give way to the shadow Secretary of State.

Steve Reed Portrait Steve Reed
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I want to share a direct quote from Richard Desmond given to The Sunday Times about the video. These are his words: “What I did was I showed him the video because we’ve got a video of the site. He got the gist. He thanked me”.

David Linden Portrait David Linden
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This is the very point. The shadow Secretary of State has hit the nail on the head, because that was wrong. The Secretary of State should have run for the hills, never touched the issue ever again and flagged the conflict of interest to his departmental officials.

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