At DPMQs LibDem Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper asked Lammy:
“Will the DPM join us in urging the Chancellor to delay the honorable member for Clacton’s resignation until the investigation is complete? So the good people of Clacton have all the facts before they cast their votes. And failing that, will he support our Clacton clause so that even once the honourable member ceases to be an MP, the investigations can continue?”
Lammy did not say a by-election would be delayed:
“He’s got serious questions to answer and he can’t run away from them. Labour isn’t going to be part of this circus. I hear it’s the people versus the establishment. The city trader Putin-admiring professional politician whose pals with crypto billionaires versus Count Binface. There have been there have been unqualified joke candidates in the past. Let’s see what the people of Clacton decide.”
The parliamentary commissioner for standards may not come back for over a year. Another LibDem fail on the way…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”