Labour<\/a> Party after campaigning for a paedophile).\n<\/p>\n\n Nevertheless, Olly\u2019s evidence cleared the PM of the principal charge, namely that he misled Parliament by denying that he had known that Peter Mandelson had failed his developed vetting.\n<\/p>\n
\n Two members were rightly forced to leave the Commons Chamber on Wednesday last week for accusing the PM of having lied.\n<\/p>\n
\n As do so many of us, the PM obfuscates, he conceals, but he does not lie.\n<\/p>\n
\n I tried to nail him down.\n<\/p>\n
\n I asked why, when he was asked by Kemi Badenoch on 4th February “did the official security vetting that he received mention Mandelson\u2019s ongoing relationship with\u2026 Jeffrey Epstein?\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The Prime Minister replied, \u201cYes, it did.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n So how could he deny having ever received the official Vetting Report?\n<\/p>\n
\n The answer is that he had simply confused the terminology of the different reports.\n<\/p>\n
\n He was referring to the Due Diligence Report, which he had received, not the Vetting Report, which he hadn\u2019t.\n<\/p>\n
\n Confusing two different reports in quick-fire during Prime Minister’s Questions isn\u2019t lying.\n<\/p>\n
\n He\u2019s off that hook.\n<\/p>\n
\n Readers will appreciate that I am not an impartial observer, on the contrary, I am a committed partisan.\n<\/p>\n
\n Notwithstanding that I was often a severe critic of the last Tory government -despite having been part of it, I believe that this Labour government is infinitely worse on almost every front.\n<\/p>\n
\n Of course, the Official Opposition is right to go after the PM for his failures, but do we really want his scalp?\n<\/p>\n
\n Be careful what you wish for: \u2018Hang on to Nurse, for fear of Something worse.\u2019\n<\/p>\n
\n The candidates lining up to replace Kier Starmer should terrify middle England.\n<\/p>\n
\n As for a vote in the Commons to refer the Prime Minister to the Privileges Committee.\n<\/p>\n
\n Forget it!\n<\/p>\n
\n I wouldn\u2019t vote to refer anyone to that kangaroo court, not after the travesty of their proceedings against Owen Paterson.\n<\/p>\n
\n The notion of politicians sitting in judgement on anyone should fill us all with horror.\n<\/p>\n
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