information and why those around him built a wall of silence between the facts and prime minister. mr. speaker, the conflict of interest has real effects. the metropolitan police commissioner resigned on sunday. they didn't talk about the reasons of the resignation. we must talk about it. he was trapped. he was trapped between a secretary angry at not being told about the hiring of mr. coleson's deputy and belief in his own words that doing so would have compromised the prime minister. compromised him because of mr. coleson. why did he think that? because his own deputy, john yates was told by the prime minister's chief of staff that he was told nothing. this error of judgment, hiring coulson, hanging on to him too long contributed to the decision