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Prime minister Boris Johnson will not attend today’s emergency debate, and has defended the “original intention” of last week’s attempt to quash Conservative MP Owen Paterson’s recommended 30-day suspension in an interview with Sky News earlier today. Mr Johnson is visiting a hospital in Northumberland ahead of today’s debate. However when asked by Sky News… Read more »
This afternoon MPs will hold an emergency debate on MPs standards in the wake of the Government’s controversial quashing of Owen Paterson’s recommended 30-day suspension last Wednesday, followed by a U-turn the subsequent day. Yesterday the Sunday Times and the Mail on Sunday, both reported that Speaker Lindsay Hoyle could personally intervene in the debate, while… Read more »
