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‘I think that we should leave it there,’ said David Cameron when asked by reporters today about Maria Miller. Of course, the press won’t leave it there as many suspect that there is something about this that doesn’t quite meet the ‘smell test’ that a leader of a party in opposition once set out. Why has the Prime Minister been quite so warm and supportive towards a minister who failed to co-operate with the investigation into her expenses? Why was she allowed to make such a recalcitrant apology? Former chair of the Commons committee on standards in public life Sir Alistair Graham has told ITV news that ‘Cabinet ministers have to show strong leadership on ethical issues and she hasn’t shown any.’
The Prime Minister also claimed that independent members of the Commons standards committee rather than MPs had the casting vote over whether to censure Miller.
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