parliamentary commissioner for standards and the committee for standards and the committee for standards which is made up of mps had overstepped the mark when it came to those rules and they recommended he be suspended for 30 days. it had to be approved by a vote in parliament and they normally go through, yesterday, a group of conservative mps backed by the government used it as an opportunity to call for a change the whole system for how mps are discipline. the vote went through and now there is going to be a new parliamentary committee that will investigate whether they should be a new appeals process added to the existing system for disciplining mps. to labour and the labour leader writing an article in the guardian newspaper today, he said it amounts to corruption which is an upgrade to the language that labour had been using to describe this whole process. that is what we are in now, a process, a new committee which will investigate whether there should be an appeal system. labou
the government was left with very little choice because it became clear during the debate in the house of commons yesterday afternoon that the government s plan to set up a new committee to review the way the rules governing mps conduct are enforced and set up did not have the support to be able to operate a cross party basis. this is an area where traditionally parliament has taken the lead and the government has not interfered or tried to influence or engineer that process and i think that amy is something which the opposition parties clearly did not like and did not want to be a part of. so as you had that the leader of the house of commons were
convivial and full fraternal spirit doesn t protect everyone else fraternal spirit. the government cannot have it both ways. can the right honourable gentleman asked his friends, do the right thing, where the masks? if not for themselves and each other, at least for the staff. mr speaker, on monday the committee for standards in public life published the 23rd report over 25 years have passed since the seven principles of public life were first introduced off the back of a previous escapade of tory sleaze and the government, and we are back there again must could the leader of there again must could the leader of the is confirm whether the government is going to endorse this report? 0r government is going to endorse this report? or if they don t like the recommendations, which i strongly suspect they don t, will theyjust abolish the committee? will they establish another sham committee so that the government can get the answers it wants? and yes, mr speaker, labourwill answers it wan
the government s plans for how to manage mps standards going forward were effectively dead in the water despite the government getting a majority on it. but there was of course the rebellion from mps on their own ranks. let s go to jonathan blake who is in westminster. well, jonathan, this was a quick and very significant u turn. it was but the government was really left with very little choice this morning, i think, left with very little choice this morning, ithink, after the left with very little choice this morning, i think, after the backlash against the decision in the house of commons yesterday where the government narrowly won a vote to pause the suspension of owen paterson, the conservative mp and former cabinet minister, and begin a review into the way in which the rules governing mps behaviour are monitored, policed and enforced, despite winning that vote there was criticism from labour and the other opposition parties, and also from a good many conservative mps too who are
trevor, who was given. that related to a speaker, sirjohn trevor, who was given. . .- that related to a speaker, sirjohn trevor, who was given. studio: we will leave the trevor, who was given. studio: we will leave the commons, trevor, who was given. studio: we will leave the commons, that - trevor, who was given. studio: we will leave the commons, that was - trevor, who was given. studio: we will leave the commons, that was a i will leave the commons, that was a swift and significant u turn announced there by the leader of the is jacob rees mogg on what is going to happen to mps standards after that vote yesterday which saw labour accused the government of wallowing in sleaze after the government supported a vote that blocked the suspension of owen paterson who had been suspended from the house for 30 days after being found guilty of egregious breaches of mps standards as a result of lobbying that he had done. there was that vote yesterday that the government intended to see bri