 has refused to correct the record (Picture: PA) Two years ago, I made headlines after being kicked out of the House of Commons for calling out the many lies of then-Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. Now, I am once again forced to try and draw attention to parliamentary fibbing from this Conservative Government. The rot clearly didn't stop with Boris – in fact, it seems that when it comes to the Tories, lying is their hallmark. And it is time to toughen up the rules so that they can no longer get away with misleading the British public. On this occasion, it was the Deputy Prime Minister, Oliver Dowden, who I had to call out in the chamber two weeks in a row Back on June 7, when he was standing in for our absentee Prime Minister, Dowden claimed that the Labour Party's plan to invest £28billion a year in green energy would add £1,000 a year 'to everyone's mortgage.' For the Deputy PM to make such a bold statement, you would expect it to be firmly backed up. However, the Treasury has since admitted that the £1,000 figure does not come from official government analysis, after being challenged by the UK's statistics watchdog. We would expect Dowden to either back up his statement, or correct the record. After all, the ministerial code, which all ministers must abide, states: 'It is of paramount importance that ministers give accurate and truthful information to Parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity.' The rot clearly didn't stop with Boris Johnson (Picture: Getty Images) I attempted to ensure just that, when I raised a Point of Order on July 5, calling on the Deputy PM to return to the House and set the record straight, but he refused. A week later, I gave him another chance to do so – again, he chose not to. I didn't let this go and wrote to the Prime Minister – the ultimate arbiter of the ministerial code – with three clear questions. Where did the Deputy PM get the figure from? Would he instruct the Deputy PM to ret){kind=link}
NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Two years ago, I made headlines after being kicked out of the House of Commons for calling out the many lies of then-Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.
Now, I am once again forced to try and draw attention to parliamentary fibbing from this Conservative Government.
The rot clearly didn’t stop with Boris – in fact, it seems that when it comes to the Tories, lying is their hallmark.
And it is time to toughen up the rules so that they can no longer get away with misleading the British public.