My hon. Friend is trying to grasp a complicated matter. The Bill of Rights makes it absolutely clear that no proceeding in Parliament should be questioned or impeached by any court of law or any other place. Unless we change the Bill of Rights, it seems difficult to allow a court or another body outside Parliament to judge what a Member may or may not have done in the proceeding in Parliament. Does my hon. Friend’s proposed Standards Committee, which he wants to make more independent, meet that same rule?
Recall of MPs Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Chris Bryant
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 27 October 2014.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Recall of MPs Bill.
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