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Old 16-11-2021, 13:19   #329
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
Can someone help?

When BEIS Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said Kathryn Stone should reconsider her position, what did he mean?

As he's now written to her advising her “I did not mean to express doubt about your ability to discharge your role”

This was the moment for me that I knew the decision to protect the corrupt MP was coming from the top, and not simply Johnson, Mogg et al with their eye off the ball. A Cabinet Minister essentially calling for her resignation on live television is part of a communications strategy. The question could reasonably be anticipated and he delivered the agreed line.

In anything other than a banana republic he would be resigning for undermining an independent process.
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