‘Jurassic embarrassment’: Tory MPs attack colleague who blocked Paterson report approval – UK politics live
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This is what Nick Thomas-Symonds, the shadow home secretary, told LBC this morning about the vote on the Owen Paterson report.
We’ve had a situation first of all where Owen Paterson, who was then one of the government’s senior backbench MPs, was found very clearly to have broken the rules.
The government has firstly avoided endorsing that report by frankly ripping up the rules and deciding just because the Government didn’t like the conclusion that had been drawn, it would change the system.
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