Engagements
Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister
11:30 am
Edward Miliband (Leader of the Opposition; Doncaster North, Labour)
This is what the Mayor of London, the Prime Minister’s new best mate, said last year at the Conservative party conference:
“I reckon we need to…make it clear that if people swear at the police then they must expect to be arrested.”—[Interruption.]
The Chief Whip from a sedentary position says that he did not. Maybe he will tell us what he actually did say, which he has failed to do.
Yet according to the official police report,
“a man claiming to be the Chief Whip”
called the police “plebs”, told them they should know their place and used other abusive language. Can the Prime Minister now tell us: did the Chief Whip use those words?