can be to a government. his government was brought very low in the 905 by sleaze |and that is a concern and mp5 right| now are meeting their constituents, speaking to them, they re finding out how it went and, ifjohn major is right here, - it is a worry for boris johnson. there is a real lessonj learned here, ithink. this concern about arrogance, about an overbearing nature, i trying to boss parliament about, it really was a clash between the executive and the legislature - and borisjohnson s - government came off worse. but he is very loyal and what drove this was an idea to bring in an appeals process to the way mps are dealt with, but equally to tie - that to the owen paterson case because there s a lot of sympathy amongst his friends . on the backbenches, given his wife killed herself last year, i so it was an attempt to do some good for all mp5. it was the wrong way to sell it. cop26 continues in glasgow with the focus on nature and the natural world.
case of owen paterson on wednesday. the government then backtracked following an outcry. let s speak to christopher hope, chief political correspondent and assistant editor at the daily telegraph. welcome to you. first question for you is how representative do you thinkjohn major pulls my comments are of government thinking7 and also the government thinking of conservative voters7 jahh the government thinking of conservative voters? john ma or s comments conservative voters? john ma or s comments really i conservative voters? john ma or s comments really matter. conservative voters? john ma or s comments really matter. he h conservative voters? john major s comments really matter. he is . conservative voters? john major s comments really matter. he is a i comments really matter. he is a former tory prime minister and there aren t many of those. when he says things that count. at number ten they will know that he supported jeremy holmes in 2019, he hated brexit, he campaigned agains
tory was in the old days, low tax, not spending heavily, covering your bills, that kind of thing and even john major would argue other things that those issues don t seem to be important for this government at the moment. john major is totally anti sleaze and anti lobbying and that is the problem. for peoplejohn major, and people in the grass roots, they don t recognise the party that it has become since 2019. sorry to interrupt you but the idea of there not being one rule for the government and one rule for everybody else, that is ageless, isn t it? whether it isjohn major s area or now. ijust wonder whether this will be a reality check for borisjohnson and for his government or whether people might speculate that this is a government that will try to push the rules, push the boundaries and continue to do so as far as they can. the
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problem with any sibling of mps as they are always marking their homework on a consensus basis and thatis homework on a consensus basis and that is why we had the system. whatever the motivation and set of circumstances that led to this unfolding, the overarching question is why did this, why was this allowed to happen? was this boris johnson deciding that this is what he wanted to do and not listening to any advisors, or were the right people nothing to him that this is not going go down well? certainly, the southport not going go down well? certainly, the southport problem not going go down well? certainly, the southport problem with - not going go down well? certainly, the southport problem with the - not going go down well? certainly, l the southport problem with the tory party at the moment and john major mentioned this in his comments is that the tory party does feel on conservative to people ofjohn major plasma generation. he is getting on now, he was in power 20 years ago,