as the rest of us. a conservative mp has apologised to the commons after an inquiry found him in breach of parliament s bullying and harassment policy. the commissioner for standards found that daniel kawczynski had acted in an intimidatory and threatening manner towards two members of staff after technical difficulties had meant he d been unable to attend a virtual committee meeting. i did not swear nor raise my voice, but my behaviour led to two complaints. i have reflected on my behaviour. i accept it constituted bullying, and as such was entirely inexcusable. the circumstances were stressful for the staff who were assisting the committee and for me. i apologised to them before, and i apologise to them again and to the house unreservedly. i will never repeat such behaviour. thank you, mr speaker. finally, there s been some good news this yearfor animal lovers who rent their home in england. depending on your tenancy
more persistent rain on the south coast first thing. not a cold start here, but chillier elsewhere with clear skies away from this zone of thicker cloud in southern scotland, producing one or two showers. that will push into northern england slowly as we go through the day, sunshine either side of it. but notice how the rain develops more widely in southern counties of england as we go through monday, inching up close to the south and east midlands, parts of east anglia, too, maybe even close to south east wales. but much of wales and the midlands stays dry and bright. still got the north easterly breeze here and, where the rain is falling, temperatures will struggle to get above the mid teens. a few showers in northern england but towards the western coast here, west wales and western scotland, we could get to around 19 20 celsius during the afternoon. now, through monday night, rain still at times across these southern counties of england that will stop temperatures from falling
airfrom the north as we go through tuesday. cold relative to the time of year, of course, but it will help to clear away the rain eventually from the southernmost counties of england. long, sunny spells for most to begin with, clouding over a touch through the afternoon across england and wales as the cloud builds up and spreads out. not as chilly for some of you as monday will have been. another cool night across england and wales as we go into wednesday. here, the best of the dry and brighter weather, but clouds spitting in from the northwest will bring in a few spots of rain or drizzle. even with that cloud, though, slightly milder air, 18 19 celsius across the north, but 21 further south. thursday will bring that cloud further south in fact, the end of the week cloudy for most with a few splashes of rain at times, but temperatures near average forjune.
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to say to the minister that i cannot support the government this evening because i cannot find a way to explain to my constituents why the things they are looking forward to getting back to doing have to wait. the government has set a disastrous precedent in terms of the future of liberty in these islands. now, i could understand it if we were a communist party, but this is the party that inherited the true wisdom of the whig tradition. sir desmond swayne. the easing of covid i9 restrictions has been delayed in scotland too. the whole country was due to move to the lowest level zero of its five tier system from the 28th ofjune. but the first minister, nicola sturgeon, said that this was likely to be be delayed by three weeks so that more people can be vaccinated against the virus. with borisjohnson having delayed the lifting of restrictions in england, she told msps that the scottish government too would adopt