The Speaker is furious with David Cameron and the wider Government. It comes as the former PM was appointment as the new Foreign Secretary.
Speaker furious with David Cameron
Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle was not happy at all today.
Lord Cameron will not face the regular sessions of Foreign Office questions, with more junior ministers instead fielding questions in the Commons chamber, reports The Independent.
Lord Cameron will face questions from elected MPs only when he appears before select committees. Junior ministers will answer questions in the Commons chamber on his behalf.
Hoyle said: “Given the gravity of the current international situation, it is especially important this house is able to scrutinise the work of the FCDO” Currently David Cameron will only be accountable to House of Lords.
David Lammy wrote on X: “David Cameron was a disastrous PM. This is a last gasp act of desperation from a government devoid of talent and ideas. Amid international crisis, Sunak has chosen an unelected failure from the past who MPs cannot even hold to account. Only Labour offers the change we need.”
The last time a former PM made a return to the Cabinet was Alec Douglas Home, who returned to the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary in 1970.
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Hoyle told MPs: “This is not the first time in recent years that a Cabinet minister has been appointed in the House of Lords, but given the gravity of the current international situation, it is especially important that this House is able to scrutinise the work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office effectively.
“I have therefore commissioned advice from the clerks about possible options for enhancing (scrutiny) of the work of the Foreign Secretary when that post is filled by a member of the other House.
“I also look forward to hearing the Government’s proposals on how the Foreign Secretary will be properly accountable to this House.”
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