It is breakable and contingent.We’ve been a long time admirers of woven wall hangings and have loved seeing how these vintage flat weave textiles have come back in style thanks to such talented artists like Mimi Jung, Janelle Pietrzak, Maryanne Moodie and Meghan Bogden Shimek. I think it is both negligent and dangerous to assume that democracy is inevitable, perpetual and unshakeable. "Because this inquiry had to be fought for – there was nothing guaranteed about it and because our standard systems are still not fit for purpose. "But I say can be, and not will be, advisedly. And yes the report offers some hope because it also shows that if an MP, or indeed a prime minister, deliberately lies and undermines the process of this House, they can be held to account. "I think this report shows that our 'good chap' conventions of government allowed a rogue prime minister to run amok for far too long. "But I want us to be very clear that our democracy is fragile and there was nothing inevitable about this outcome. She said that the day the report was published was "a day that saw British parliamentary democracy vindicated against an unprecedented attack".
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas also warned that it was "dangerous" to assume that democracy was "inevitable and unshakeable".
The case for the defence was later led by knights of the shires Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and Sir Bill Cash, but their attacks on the committee were too lawyerly and got bogged down in detail. Mrs May made the statesmanlike speech about the public's trust in politics that Mr Sunak should have made. The stars of the debate were Mrs May and Harriet Harman, who made towering, blockbuster speeches early on. No worries about unparliamentary language.
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Now he's out of parliament and has been condemned by a report by a senior Commons committee, they were free to call him a liar. The marathon debate saw speaker after speaker - mostly opposition MPs, it must be said, but including several Tories - trash Mr Johnson's reputation even more than it has been already. But many of the former PM's cheerleaders did indeed abstain. The Johnson diehards were Sir Bill Cash, Nick Fletcher, Adam Holloway, Karl McCartney, Joy Morrissey, Sir Desmond Swayne and Heather Wheeler. No wonder Mr Johnson asked his allies to stay away.īut 118 Conservative MPs voted to damn him, including several government ministers and senior backbenchers, led by former PM Theresa May and including 1922 Committee chairman Sir Graham Brady.Ĭabinet ministers voting for the largely symbolic punishment of denying Mr Johnson a Commons pass available to ex-MPs were Alex Chalk, David TC Davies, Simon Hart, Gillian Keegan, Chloe Smith and Penny Mordaunt and Andrew Mitchell and Tom Tugendhat, who attend Cabinet. It was after The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday that only seven MPs were set to vote against the report that he "called off the dogs".Īnd indeed there were just seven votes in Mr Johnson's defence when it came to the vote. It was just the outcome Mr Johnson and his close allies didn't want. Then he and his deputy, Lilian Greenwood, acted as tellers so the division would go ahead.Īnd Mr Johnson's humiliation was complete when just seven Conservative MPs voted against the committee's damning report. Mr Sunak – who now looks weak and feeble after skipping the debate and the vote – had desperately wanted the report to go through "on the nod" as well, in a bid to conceal the bitter Tory divisions.īut as Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle called the vote after more than five hours of acrimonious debate, Labour's wily chief whip Sir Alan Campbell bellowed "No! No! No" in Sir Lindsay's ear to make sure there was a division. To the very end, Boris Johnson and his dwindling band of supporters - and Rishi Sunak and the Tory high command - were outwitted by the Labour Party in the parliamentary battle over partygate.Īt the beginning of the privileges committee process, back in April 2022, the Tories failed to spot the trap being laid when an opposition motion to launch the inquiry was allowed to go through unopposed, "on the nod".Īnd at the end, after Mr Johnson "called off the dogs" last Friday and ordered his supporters to abstain at the end of the marathon debate on the committee's report, Labour sprang another trap.
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