Former Tory chairman says Sunak should suspend Zahawi – but why not ‘drain the swamp’?
Jake Berry: his BBCQT appearance needs to be seen to be believed.
The BBC’s flagship Question Time programme featured an extraordinary display of backstabbing by a Tory MP against his Cabinet replacement.
Former Tory chairman Jake Berry, asked whether his successor Nadhim Zahawi should stay in post after revelations about his tax affairs, started out with a classic ‘resume statement’, praising his party colleague – but then veered off-topic sharply, saying a mechanism should be in place for Zahawi to step back from government while he was being investigated, and be reinstated if vindicated.
It’s not a bad idea but it has been around for some time – it’s called suspension. He would not lose his job as an MP, and could come back later.
Berry then manufactured an argument with Tracy (“Drain the swamp!”) Brabin over the role of independent ethics advisor Sir Laurie Magnus.
Probably the best comment from an audience member came from a GP who said there had been so many similar scandals in the Tory government that it seemed impossible to trust anybody in the party at all.
The debate ranged across all the information that has come out so far and I have tried to ensure that these are all included in the clip, so we can all refer back to it.
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Both the tory party and The zionist bribed, proven liar, deceiver and fraud, Starmer and his nest of snakes are not fit to sit in Parliament. They have no interest in serving Britain or the British people….They only serve themselves and those that are bribing them.Parliament is a cess pit of lies, fraud, theft and corruption.It is no longer fit for purpose. These corrupt scumbags have proven that they are above the law, and those with less are made to suffer.