"This is, in my opinion, very bad", Nish Kumar said following revelations that Sir Robbie Gibb had tried to block the appointment of Jess Brammar.
The UK is now the only G7 country not supporting it.
Labour's motion would have forced developers to make buildings with Grenfell-style cladding safe within a year.
It’s World Press Freedom Day, but the current government is making me very worried about press freedom in the UK.
The PM remains the “ultimate arbiter” of the ministerial code, meaning he “effectively marks his own homework”.
The statement comes after a group of human rights experts strongly rejected the report as “further distorting and falsifying historic facts”
You get the impression the Conservatives aren't as bothered about cracking down on cronyism as they insist.
Here's the full list of MPs who voted to block protections against trade deals with genocidal regimes.
“To use parliamentary privilege to smear a journalist – knowing you can’t be sued for defamation because you are saying it in Parliament – is extremely troubling.