Sorry may be the hardest word for Boris Johnson but that isn’t the case for certain members of his cabinet. After the Prime Minister refused once again in an appearance at the COP26 summit to apologise for backing Owen Paterson in a row over a proposed suspension for a lobbying breach, his ministers are finding their voice.
This morning Rishi Sunak broke his silence on the issue. In an interview with the BBC, Sunak was asked about the current Tory sleaze row and former cabinet minister Geoffrey Cox’s outside earnings working in a tax haven. He replied:
‘I’m not familiar with specific details of that case. It wouldn’t be right for me to comment on individuals. But we do have established independent parliamentary processes that govern all of these things and it’s absolutely right that those are followed to the letter. Reflecting on all of these things over recent days, for us as a government, we need to do better than we did last week and we know that.’
The line that sticks out is the Chancellor’s comment that the government needs ‘to do better than we did last week and we know that.’
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