Is fully behind the action that we are taking. The member for shipley with her huge experience in health and social care, talked about the need to work with those in supported Accommodation And Housing associations and the nhs to make sure pensioners get the help they are entitled to and i will spell some of the action out. The Memberfor Rossendale and darwen made a strong case for targeting health on the poorest pensioners and the need to tackle the root causes of poverty including insulating homes and bring Energy Costs down. And the memberfor pool, one of the things he said was the long and complex form for Pension Credit which i have asked to be reduced to make it asked to be reduced to make it as simple as possible. I would like to start by setting out why we have taken the difficult decision to means Test Winter Fuel payments so they are no longer available to all pensioners whatever their income. But focused on those in greatest need. Put simply, it is because we must fix the fo
the scene. not for him the hanging around to accept his punishment and the verdict of his peers. he was such a coward when it came to this, that he would quickly was out of his seat and beyond the clutches of this parliament. but almost unbelievably, there are some who still hanker for this notion, this fantasy that he will have some sort of route back to elected politics. it is hard to imagine a situation or a setting when that would be allowed in this house. i think we can conclude today that he is toast and thank goodness he is gone. but i have to come back to the party opposite and some of the responses of honourable gentlemen and ladies about boris johnson because they knew everything about him. he is a serial person who was sacked. the very places he worked in that he was sacked from, yet they made him prime minister. i made most maiden speech the same day as borisjohnson and i actually followed him from these benches the day he made his maiden speech. even at that poin
sitting in downing street while our families were dying? how ridiculous. yet the report, while it gives evidence, and to those members opposite to say they saw no evidence, guess what? here s the evidence. it s in the report! you might as well read it for a change. there was also the covid on wiry ongoing, and let me quote. i will give way. ongoing, and let me quote. i will cive wa . , ., ongoing, and let me quote. i will aivewa. , . , give way. i m very grateful. doesn t it make a mockery give way. i m very grateful. doesn t it make a mockery that give way. i m very grateful. doesn t it make a mockery that one - give way. i m very grateful. doesn t it make a mockery that one of- give way. i m very grateful. doesn t it make a mockery that one of the l it make a mockery that one of the things the report can recommend is that boris johnson things the report can recommend is that borisjohnson does not have former members passed based on the privilege as a member of the privy coun
opposition parties include the lack of examination of witnesses and the unused mechanism for the appointment of an investigator re permit stop the interpretation of rules relating to whistle blowing on the length of time taken and the lack of continuity in participation in investigations, and the aggregation of aggravating factors and the absence of the right of appeal. mister speaker, i will of course give way. i mister speaker, i will of course cive wa . . , mister speaker, i will of course cive wa . ., , ., give way. i am very grateful. he refers to the give way. i am very grateful. he refers to the lack give way. i am very grateful. he refers to the lack of give way. i am very grateful. he refers to the lack of appeal - give way. i am very grateful. he i refers to the lack of appeal point, which i ve heard on a number of occasions on this matter. isn t the oversight of the committee on standards or indeed the judgment of this house both effective field processes in this matt
worse position and further find himself in an appeals process? he is absolutely right. himself in an appeals process? he is absolutely right. my himself in an appeals process? he is absolutely right. my right absolutely right. my right honourable absolutely right. my right honourable friend - absolutely right. my right honourable friend was . absolutely right. my right - honourable friend was interrupted absolutely right. my right honourable friend was interrupted in the course of his speech by an intervention and he was about to say something regarding the question of contested cases which is right at the heart of this issue, because report after report, including the joint committee on privilege, has said that in such cases, criteria for fairness has to be applied stop this investigator e panel, as he so eloquently stated, does provide for such a state of affairs. it was not applied by the committee in this case. ., ., , ., ., case. i m gratefulto my honourable friend he