If this is the case for Conservative MPs, it is all the more important for their leader. Rishi Sunak should walk through the lobbies today and back the Committee.
It indicates that his conduct since stepping down as an MP is why the sanction is so severe – but doesn’t tell us, beyond being sufficient to trigger a recall, what the original would have been.
They recommend a 90-day suspension and that he be refused the parliamentary pass customarily afforded to former MPs.
Our representatives are so bogged down with super-councillor make-work that they don’t have time to focus properly on national issues.
“He’s quitting as much on his own terms as he can, given the essentially zero political wriggle-room he had left.”
A staunchly pro-Brexit Tory peer or an ardently Europhile Labour MP agree that it should be the legislature which sets the law of the land.
Making a proper job of repeal was always going to take years of work. Yet the relevant legislation wasn’t even tabled until Liz Truss became prime minister.
The King should seek to build the Commons up rather than consider it an embarrassment.
They have been introduced in response to backbench pressure – with the Government seeming to accept the argument that the Bill as introduced was vulnerable to litigation. Parliament should accept them, but should be aware that some risks remain.
“When our Sentencing Act ended the early release of offenders who pose a danger to the public – it was the Labour Party who voted against it.”
Later today, I will be presenting the Public Office (Child Sexual Abuse) Bill to close this abhorrent loophole and bar anyone who facilitated, enabled, or turned a blind eye to child sexual abuse from holding any public office, position of authority, or job paid by taxpayer funds.
Labour pressed the Government on protecting women and girls, prosecuting rape and the current court backlog.
There should be a high bar to exposing anyone to a flawed recall procedure yoked by happenstance to a legitimate Parliamentary enquiry.
Rishi Sunak must appear reasonable enough to those MPs who are worried about our international obligations, and impatient enough to those who worry he is not sufficiently serious about tackling small boats.
Many of Tory MPs will be sick and tired of the self-reverential obsequies attached to the Committee’s deliberation and verdict – and of the hysteria, hate, vitriol and venom directed at a man without whom many would never have had the opportunity to serve in Parliament.