Over the weekend another two senior Tories in trouble, the two in question are Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Home Secretary Suella Braverman.
Suella Braverman
Let’s start with Suella, what has she been up to?
It seems she asked a civil servants (the ones they always moan about!) to help her dodge a speeding fine.
It has happened before…
Also in 2013 Liberal Democrat Chris Huhne and his ex-wife, Vicky Pryce, were each been jailed for eight months for perverting the course of justice over an arrangement 10 years ago in which Pryce took speeding points for the former Liberal Democrat MP.
Anyway, just a little (over the limit) trip down memory lane for you there..
The PM was asked about the incident, during a press conference at the Hiroshima G7 summit.
As ever, it’s rarely the rule break that gets you…it’s the cover up.
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Jeremy Hunt
So what has Jeremy Hunt been up to?
Well, he was reprimanded over wrongly implying UK public debt forecast to fall
The official statistics watchdog has reprimanded the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, after he claimed public debt levels would fall in the coming years, when in fact they are simply forecast to rise less steeply than previously expected, reports The Guardian.
Labour MP Dame Angela Eagle told the Guardian: “As the statistics authority has confirmed, this government has a persistently troubled relationship with the truth – one that is becoming increasingly obvious if you read the fine print.
“It is incredibly disappointing to see the chancellor resorting to using such misleading statistics in a tweet of all places – a new low for the fourth chancellor in a year.”
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