Labour will use Wednesday’s opposition day debates to call time
on the Tory sleaze scandal with a vote to end paid directorships
and commercial consultancies in Parliament, announced today.
The Labour Party leader will also call for the government to
publish all the minutes of meetings between the government and
Owen Patterson’s bosses at Randox.
MP, Leader of the Labour
Party, said:
“We need to call time on the Tory sleaze scandal that has
engulfed Boris Johnson’s government.
"While the Prime Minister has failed to act, Labour is taking the
lead by giving MPs the chance to end the sort of dodgy lobbying
that was guilty of. It should be a
point of consensus that paid directorships and commercial
consultancies are not jobs for MPs. The only people MPs should be
lobbying for is their constituents.
“The Prime Minister has admitted the Paterson motion ‘could have
been handled better’; Wednesday is a chance to show he means
it.
" should call on his MPs to do
the right thing and vote to publish the Randox papers, end dodgy
lobbying and show that standards in public life still matter.
"It was the Prime Minister's decisions which has led to this
scandal. He has repeatedly failed in his leadership over this
issue. now has a choice: support
Labour’s plan to fix this or whip his MPs to vote against a ban
on dodgy second jobs for MPs and a cover-up on the scandal."
Ends
Notes to Editors
· The Labour Party will table
two motions as part of Wednesday’s opposition day debates. One on
ending paid directorships and commercial consultancies. The other
calling for the publication of the papers relating to Owen
Paterson’s advocacy for Randox and all government contracts they
received.
