The Prime Minister’s position on Maria Miller has shifted a little in the past few days – but only on the wider issue of self-regulation. At this afternoon’s lobby briefing, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said:
‘There are I’m sure a number of ways in which Parliament can consider this, I’m not going to try and pre-empt what they may be but as you’ve heard the PM himself say in the clip earlier, he is, he’s very open to considering changes that Parliament may consider.
‘He’s very much open to looking at particularly sort of how Parliament may want, what changes Parliament may want to make, how that may happen, I’m not going to try and pre-empt that.’
The spokesman said this was a matter for the House of Commons. But when it came to questions on whether this was bad for politics, or good for politics, or a shift from the PM’s pledge to make politics whiter than white, or a sign that the man who tasked his chief whip with a ‘smell test‘ for MPs’ expenses has since lost his sense of smell, the spokesman continually directed journalists to the comments that David Cameron made on Friday and earlier today.
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