Watch: MP refuses to withdraw word ‘dodgy’ when describing Shapps & Rees-Mogg
"I don't have any other way of putting it."
"I don't have any other way of putting it."
Earlier this month Sir John Major hit out at the Johnson administration for its "shameful" conduct.
Among them is former transport secretary Chris Grayling, who took a £100,000-a-year role advising a ports company.
Lord Freud said the benefits cap was not an austerity measure, but a way of winning over voters.
It comes after Rees-Mogg led the government’s recent attempts to rip up the Commons’ standards rules to protect former Tory MP Owen Paterson from a lobbying row.
The Sunday Times reported the Transport Secretary – who the newspaper says owns a £100,000 aeroplane – “set-up and diverted public money” to a new team within the Civil Aviation Authority which is designed to lobby against planning developments that infringe on airstrips.
The majority of the public are in favour of Proportional Representation - is it time to make the switch?
The former Tory leader advised a hand sanitiser company - while chairing a government taskforce which changed rules to benefit them.
Can you guess which side are the Tory benches?
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