28/09/2023 09:34
The Guardian
Prime minister says ‘majority of journeys are by car’ as he avoids question on HS2 extension from BirminghamRishi Sunak received a nice, soft question about Star Wars from Babs Michel on BBC Three Counties Radio this morning (see 9.49am), but she also gave him hell over the conduct of Nadine Dorries, who eventually resigned as MP for Mid Bedfordshire after repeated claims that she was doing no work on behalf of her constituents.Michel said that Dorries was understood not to have held a constituency surgery since 2020, and that this was “hugely embarrassing”. She said Dorries’s behaviour went against everything the Tories stood for, and she said the voters in Mid Beds “deserved better”. Sunak did not try to defend Dorries at all, and instead said Festus Akinbusoye, the Tory candidate in the byelection, would be “a great MP”.No, you are and you’re her direct line boss. So why didn’t you deal with that situation, as her boss?The way it works for MPs is slightly different, in the sense that they themselves are elected by their constituents and we have a separate process for them stopping the job that they’re in. It is not my ability to do that, actually. Ultimately people elect their MPs regardless of who the prime minister is. Continue reading...
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