‘For the few’: Paterson affair shatters any illusions about government’s true priorities
When MPs voted to protect their mate they were also voting to keep their own noses clean.
When MPs voted to protect their mate they were also voting to keep their own noses clean.
Britain could withdraw from Horizon Europe and Euratom, the continent's atomic energy treaty, if relations with the EU worsen.
A general election is a long way off, but a leadership challenge could be in the offing.
"I’m sorry but who ever signed off Keir Starmer being subjected to 5 mins of why Brian Cox will never vote Labour again is an evil genius," Ava Santina said.
"They could lie to the Queen under the Get Brexit Done slogan, so the idea that they could rip up the anti-corruption rule book, seen through this lens, becomes relatively innocuous."
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'."
A fifth of all MPs have regular paid roles on top of their constituency duties, analysis found.
The ex-England captain is alleged to have told Azeem Rafiq and two Asian players: “There are too many of you lot."
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