for electoral purposes when it should only be used for parliamentary purposes, is quite valuable to have a mixture of lay people, we have seven laypeople from the public, and mp5 on it. you are a labour mp, the public, and mp5 on it. you are a labourmp, but the public, and mp5 on it. you are a labour mp, but you are opposing keir starmer s plan for dealing with this independent commission. one of the things about being the chair and standards as you have to be nonpartisan and god knows i can be nonpartisan and god knows i can be partisan. i think david cameron told me once that he used to hate the fact that i regularly got called on prime minister s questions because i would always be so sharp towards him but i think that sometimes persistence is the most important thing. sometimes with a bit of a cheeky smile because a special at the moment, they ve got an 80 seat majority, if i want to get anything done i got to get tories to do it.
parliament on a range of different issues from ending menial? endometriosis to fuel poverty and expressing how much of a loss this is to parliament. it was put to the prime minister also that given this is five years after the brutal murder of another mp, is five years after the brutal murder ofanother mp, labour is five years after the brutal murder ofanothermp, labourmp,jo murder of another mp, labour mp, jo cox murder ofanothermp, labourmp,jo cox in her constituency in west yorkshire, this is an attack on our democracy but he wouldn t engage without question. he said those conversations were for the coming days. now, it is about reflecting on the life of david amess sharing our thoughts and prayers with his family. as you say, the home secretary, priti patel, has tweeted saying this does raise questions about the security of our mps as they go about doing the fundamentals of theirjob, speaking to the people that elect them to represent them in parliament has an awful lot of people s
lowered to half mast. sir david, who was 69, had been mp for southend west since 1997. he was married and had five children. let s speak to the former conservative mp, anne widdecombe. your thoughts about sir david, the man on the family man. i am your thoughts about sir david, the man on the family man. i am very, very shocked man on the family man. i am very, very shocked by man on the family man. i am very, very shocked by what man on the family man. i am very, very shocked by what has - man on the family man. i am very, i very shocked by what has happened. he was a close, personal friend. very shocked by what has happened. he was a close, personalfriend. i was godmother to one of his children. he was a tremendous colleague at the commons. he was devoted to that constituency and he was always full of enthusiasm for things that are going on in southland, full of enthusiasm for parliament. it s a horrible shock. five years ago we were discussing the murder of an mp, labour mp,
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