Housing Secretary sends junior minister to be quizzed over Tory donor project
Robert Jenrick was "too afraid to come to the Chamber to defend himself", MP Steve Reed said.
Robert Jenrick was "too afraid to come to the Chamber to defend himself", MP Steve Reed said.
The £1 billion project got a last minute go-ahead despite being refused by the local council and independent Planning Inspectorate.
The claims appear to be nonsense but the reaction shows the anger at the idea.
His comments seem to fly in the face of the government's claim that they are "working with the experts".
It comes amid concerns that the reproduction rate of coronavirus is dangerously high.
Approval of the government's handling of the crisis has dropped from 65 per cent at the beginning of lockdown to just 34 per cent today.
In 2017 Michael Gove said there would be no such products allowed into British supermarkets.
During the debate, he was seen wiping his face with a handkerchief several times and his opposite number in Labour’s shadow cabinet, Ed Miliband, passed him a glass of water at one point.
The former speaker was accused by the Conservatives of abusing his position as an impartial chair to campaign against Brexit.
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