Lobby and Media Briefings: Journalists' Access

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:12 pm on 4 February 2020.

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Photo of Chris Bryant Chris Bryant Labour, Rhondda 1:12, 4 February 2020

I confess that there is one journalist I would quite like to keep out of Downing Street, but he is the Prime Minister and, unfortunately, he won the general election.

There is a serious issue here: every political generation in government want to try to avoid scrutiny if possible, and it is the job of this House to try to ensure that they do not get away with it. So, all the whataboutery in the world will not stop us complaining when we see a clear pattern of the Prime Minister running his leadership campaign, running his general election campaign and now running the Government in a way that is trying to avoid scrutiny. I am sure that, in private, the Minister would agree.