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