No prizes for guessing which MP was first to support PM over partygate fine
It was a close call, but there was always going to be one MP who wanted to defend the PM for law breaking more emphatically than the others.
It was a close call, but there was always going to be one MP who wanted to defend the PM for law breaking more emphatically than the others.
Jacob Rees-Mogg also claimed some of the lockdown rules imposed on the country were "inhuman".
Just three Conservative MPs voted against the offshoring plan, while Edward Leigh urged the government to "hold the line".
“I don’t think those two situations are directly analogous, clearly they are not directly analogous and I don’t think the prime minister was saying that they were directly analogous," the chancellor said.
“Priti Patel tries to give you the impression that we’re moving heaven and earth to help Ukrainian refugees when we’re doing less than any other country in Europe," the LBC presenter said.
"It's monstrous that we're filling in forms," Desmond Swayne, who campaigned for Leave means Leave, said.
“The fact the government is undertaking a study into this shows just how out of touch they are," Sarah Olney said.
One of the Tories opposing the plans is Jacob Rees-Mogg, who reportedly thinks that people should be able to choose whether to buy goods made in a cruel manner or not.
After it struggled to convince the US to sign a big post-Brexit trade deal, the UK is setting its sights lower.
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