minister sirjohn major has launched an attack on borisjohnson�*s goverment, calling its handling of owen paterson's recommended suspension shameful and wrong. on wednesday, the commons voted in favour of changing the system that governs the behaviour of mps, despite a recommendation by the independent standards commissioner to suspend mr paterson for 30 days. ministers backtracked following uproar from their own mps and opposition parties. here's our political correspondent ione wells. if there's one person who knows the damage allegations of sleaze can cause, it is sirjohn major. the former conservative prime minister's own government in the 1990s was brought down in part due to the cash for questions scandal. mps were offered money in exchange for asking parliamentary questions. but sirjohn claimed that, while he set up a committee to look at standards in public life to tackle this, the current government has tried to defend this sort of behaviour