Labour whips have cancelled the Tories’ Opposition Day, which would have included a vote to force Andy Burnham to face the House of Commons for at least a day before recess. Running from scrutiny…
As it currently stands Thursday will be recess day for the long summer break and MPs won’t return to the Commons until 1 September. Labour whips have switched proceedings for opposition day and assigned some random government business. This is exceedingly rare – is Andy scared?
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”