Starmer: Johnson starts Brexit brawls to distract from Tory scandals
The Labour leader said Johnson starts fights with Brussels to distract from scandals like the Owen Paterson affair.
The Labour leader said Johnson starts fights with Brussels to distract from scandals like the Owen Paterson affair.
Downing Street said Johnson couldn't make it back from the north-east in time for the Commons sleaze debate.
As Ratcliffe embarks on his sixteenth day of hunger strike, a reminder of how the prime minister contributed to Nazanin's predicament.
Keir Starmer said a Johnson no-show means the PM is "too arrogant or too cowardly" to face down the sleaze scandal.
An emergency Commons debate will be held to consider the implications of the Owen Paterson row.
The chairman of the Commons Standards Committee said his position has become "untenable" in the wake of the scandal.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today that there was an arrogance at the heart of the government, a "general whiff of 'we are the masters now'."
Richard Ratcliffe is on a hunger strike outside the Foreign Office - and has been for two weeks.
Labour and the Lib Dems are calling for an inquiry into whether Johnson properly declared his luxury Marbella holiday.
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