The government has dramatically decided to u-turn on the proposed changes to the House of Commons sleaze rules which were controversially voted through by the Conservatives on Wednesday.
“I fear last night’s debate conflated an individual case with the general concern. This link needs to be broken. Therefore I and others will be looking to work on a cross-party basis to achieve improvements in our system for future cases. We will bring forward more detailed proposals once there have been cross-party discussions.”
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