"My Lords, criticism of the Government’s breaches of the Ministerial Code do not just come from His Majesty’s Opposition. Paragraph 9.1 of the Ministerial Code sets out that
“the most important announcements of government policy should be made in the first instance in Parliament”.
"My Lords, in the foreword to the latest version of the Ministerial Code, the Prime Minister says:
“Restoring trust in politics is the great test of our era”,
but despite agreeing with his Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards that he would play no role in football matters, he was …..." Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay - View Speech