our independent standard procedure is not undermined or worse still, systematically dismantled altogether, which i fear is happening now. they ask the leader, is that what he wants his political legacy to be? and mining parliament7 our mps even further? does he understand fully the potential consequences of doing this? shmatko standards are important, they matter, the commissioner and they matter, the commissioner and the committee took very careful consideration of a large amount of evidence, it took a long time to read and i suspect there are some members who did not read it. they recommended the sanction on the motion before us it would be extraordinary for this house to overturn this independent, cross—party recommendation. i hate to remind the right honourable gentleman butjust last month gentleman but just last month members gentleman butjust last month members opposite said they couldn't possibly support retrospective rule change. and yet here we are. in the middle of a case, tory mps and yes i am going to state that, there are early tory mps on this amendment,