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HANSARDEngagementsThe Deputy Prime Minister pretends to empathise with those struggling with the Tory cost of living crisis, when he himself once said that food bank users are not in poverty, but…29 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsWell, well; that says a lot about the Conservative party. I will tell Conservative Members a few things about militancy. It is this Government who are acting in a militant way.…29 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, I think it is rather ironic that you have to intervene because of the baying mob here, when the Government, through their noisy protest laws, have people being stopped…29 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsWhen Conservative Back Benchers were asked about the absent Prime Minister’s plans to stick around until 2030, one said that he had “lost the plot” and another said that “anyone…29 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsTalking about NATO, where was the right hon. Gentleman during the situation in Afghanistan? On a sun lounger; that is where he was. I take no lectures from him when it comes to…29 Jun 2022HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsI thank the hon. Member. The thrust of what I am trying to do today, and hon. Members need to understand this, is just to have some probity, standards and ethics we can all agree…21 Jun 2022HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsI beg to move, That the following Standing Order be made: “(1) Following any two month period in which the role of Independent Adviser to the Prime Minister on Ministers’…21 Jun 2022HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsI commend the work of the Committee on Standards in Public Life and its report, which I absolutely agree should be implemented in full, but that is not what has happened: it was…21 Jun 2022HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsYour Prime Minister broke the law!21 Jun 2022HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsThe last time the Paymaster General was sent here to defend the indefensible, he claimed that the Prime Minister’s recent changes to the ministerial code represented “the most…21 Jun 2022HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsThis is part of the problem. We all need to have confidence that processes are being followed and that there is accountability. Nobody is above the law in this country, but the…21 Jun 2022HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsI do not see the wording of the motion creating a conflict or causing problems in that way. It will allow us to have the scrutiny and probity that we need, because the Government…21 Jun 2022HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsAbsolutely. During Lord Geidt’s time as ethics adviser, he was swamped—swamped—with allegations of ministerial misconduct. During his session with the Public Administration and…21 Jun 2022HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsI absolutely agree with the right hon. Member that trust is being corroded in politics, and I do not like that. I do not like that for any of us hon. Members in this place,…21 Jun 2022HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsThis is about us trying to make sure that we do take back control, and also that we gain the respect of the public. Quite rightly, when they elect us and bring us into this place,…21 Jun 2022HANSARDFraud ReductionThe Leader of the House talks about socialists, but let us talk about the Conservatives. He will be aware that a Conservative peer is under investigation by the National Crime…09 Jun 2022HANSARDFraud ReductionWell, that was a way of deflecting from the actual serious question that the Government are not willing to answer because they know there is suspicion about the way in which they…09 Jun 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMay I say what a luddite approach it is not to see home working as something that can be efficient? We in the Opposition can see that. Less than a year since his last outsource…09 Jun 2022HANSARDStandards in Public LifeMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. She does tremendous work on the Public Accounts Committee, deep diving into some of these issues. The Committee on Standards in Public Life…07 Jun 2022HANSARDStandards in Public LifeMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Not only does the Prime Minister not adhere to those principles; he deleted them from his own foreword to the ministerial code, which is pretty…07 Jun 2022