Interesting how much of the media has presented this as “Parliament overwhelmingly approves report” when the bigger story is the 200+ Tories who abstained (giving tacit support for Johnson).
I love how people are just realising Sunak is a bad leader. It's not like he wasn't demolished by the bold and charismatic Liz Truss, who likewise was bitterly defeated by a vegetable. He made his way to PM by staying quiet and being non-threatening. Hardly the personality type to run a supermarket, yet alone a government.
Another Boris backer Nick Fletcher argued that only Conservative MPs should be allowed to judge if fellow Tories have broken the rules. “If Man City’s star player had to sit in front of seven of his peers for a hearing how fair would it be if three of them were Man United players? Not very.”
Flawless logic and a talent for figurative rhetoric there, ladies and gents!
They already have a large majority of MPs, both in the Commons in general and on the Priviliges Committee specifically. The system already has "governing party stitchup" built in as an optional feature.
You could replace the non-conservatives on the committee with the biggest Boris fans and the report would still have passed committee with a majority. What a terrible analogy for many reasons.
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