the system should work about governing the rules which mps have to abide by in terms of their conduct in the house of commons and beyond. and there are accusations flying around that mps are trying to write their own rules and mark their own homework and their charges have been levied at the government by labour and others but frankly, if the government was choosing this moment to try to perhaps change the system in some way, reform it from the current way it operates which some argue does not give them the away to appeal it does not enable them to do that because there is deep unease in opposition benches and among conservative mps as well with the way the government was going about this and overreaching somewhat into an area which should be for mps on all sides to decide
that, we are talking about the changes in mp standards. 0wen paterson had been suspended from the commons for 30 days as a result of what the standards committee called a breach in terms of lobbying. there was a vote yesterday supported by the government to change the whole system. labourand the government to change the whole system. labour and the snp had said that they will boycott the new system. let s get the latest from our political correspondent. 0wen paterson, the conservative mp, worked for two companies and was paid by them, which he is allowed to do within the parliamentary rules, but he was found by the independent parliamentary commissioner for standards and the committee for standards, which is made up of mps, to have overstepped the mark when it came to those rules and they recommended he be suspended for 30 days. that had to be approved by a vote in parliament and normally those votes go through. yesterday, instead, a group of conservative mps backed by the government u
right honourable gentleman just said about separating the process of reviewing the standards process from individual case. that was a choice that the side opposite, the members opposite made that choice yesterday to link the two. there is no separating them retrospectively. the right honourable gentleman has made much of the fact that his government does not want to do retrospective real change so i am quite frankly astonished by him. a lot was said about the standard procedure not being in line with other workplaces. well, mps are a public office. we are not employees. we are subject to professional self regulation, not employment law. but if they want, they cannot they want to be viewed as employees rather than officeholders then alongside all the other mps they should be wearing masks. around the estate and in this chamber. because unfortunately, unlike when it comes to breaking rules about paid advocacy, a convivial and fraternal spirit does not protect everyone else. the governmen
the government was doing and the way it was going about it. the new proposal to have a new cross party system to review the way the rules governing mps behaviour were enforced just wasn t going to fly because labour, the snp and others said they didn t want to have anything to do with it and it wouldn t have any credibility in the way that the government was proposing it. so there was a stalemate, effectively, and as you sawjust in the last few minutes the leader of the house of commons jacob rees mogg stood up and announced that the government was going to pull the plug on that plan, but try to work on a cross party basis to find a new way forward for, perhaps, replacing or reforming the house of commons committee on standards which has thatjob of overseeing investigations into mps behaviour at the moment. and as he said, it had become clear that that process had become clear that that process had been conflated with a specific
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