'It is appalling that this corrupt Government is now trying to bully the standards commissioner out of her job'
Speaking on Sky News, he insisted that backing the amendment was ‘not about the rights and wrongs of what Owen Paterson said or did or how he was paid’ – but about the need to overhaul the disciplinary process.
Imagine Kwasi Kwarteng’s face right now having been sent out for two hours to the media this morning to say this is all perfectly cromulent and nothing to see here and calling for the standards commissioner to quit over it.I’ll bet Kwasi Kwarteng is really pleased he was sent out this morning to defend stoutly a position that was abandoned two hours later.Pushed on what he meant by ‘decide her position’ he replied: ‘It’s up to her to do that.
After the interview, shadow Commons leader Thangam Debbonaire called for Boris Johnson to ‘immediately distance himself from these latest attempts to poison British politics’.
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