![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/whats-happening-in-parliament-next-week/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/130318291_f438789c5d93c7a3bee4373c8d91cd287010ec19.jpg&description=Image source, PA Media The fallout from the inquiry which found Boris Johnson knowingly misled MPs continues on Monday, when MPs will be asked to approve another report from the Privileges Committee, which names and attempts to shame a number of senior Conservatives for a "co-ordinated campaign of interference," in their inquiry, including former Commons Leader Jacob Rees Mogg and former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries. The motion says that MPs should not impugn the integrity of the committee when conducting such an investigation. Because this is a matter of privilege, not standards, the motion is both debateable and amendable, and the Lib Dems are proposing an amendment seeking sanctions for the MPs who were named as seeking to interfere with the investigation into Boris Johnson. There's also an amendment from a group of backbench Conservatives led by former Home Secretary Priti Patel, which which seeks to water down the bit about impugning committee members and to remove the words "notes with approval" from the motion - a swipe at the Committee. More amendments may follow. Elsewhere, Parliament's glide path to its summer recess looks likely to encounter some turbulence. There will be intensive ping-pong between the two Houses as the Lords and Commons seek to finalise several bills, with some talk that the Illegal Migration Bill, much amended in the Lords, could run past the summer break and into Parliament's brief September sitting. Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt has announced four slots to consider Lords messages about the bill, (including two on Wednesday 19th) but after 20 government defeats, there is much to resolve. And peers embark on another legislative marathon with the start of seven days of Report Stage on the sprawling Levelling Up Bill. This covers a vast range of issues - devolution of bus services, high street banks, local nature plans, ancient woodland and the planning system, and, in an unusual move, the government has added in a new set of amendme){kind=link}
The fallout from the inquiry which found Boris Johnson knowingly misled MPs continues on Monday, when MPs will be asked to approve another report from the Privileges Committee, which names and attempts to shame a number of senior Conservatives for a “co-ordinated campaign of interference,” in their inquiry, including former Commons Leader Jacob Rees Mogg and former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries.
The motion says that MPs should not impugn the integrity of the committee when conducting such an investigation.
Because this is a matter of privilege, not standards, the motion is both debateable and amendable, and the Lib Dems are proposing an amendment seeking sanctions for the MPs who were named as seeking to interfere with the investigation into Boris Johnson.
There’s also an amendment from a group of backbench Conservatives led by former Home Secretary Priti Patel, which which seeks to water down the bit about impugning committee members and to remove the words “notes with approval” from the motion – a swipe at the Committee. More amendments may follow.
Elsewhere, Parliament’s glide path to its summer recess looks likely to encounter some turbulence.