Advisory Committee on Business Appointments/Ministerial Code

Debate between Ben Gummer and David Winnick

Monday 20th March 2017 Commons Chamber

[Ben Gummer]

My right hon. Friend, as ever, is good at making clear the liberties that underpin our democracy and that we too often forget.

[Mr David Winnick (Walsall North) (Lab)]

Those of us who were here at the time remember how difficult it was to restore the reputation of this House after the expenses scandal. Is there not a wider issue here about how the public look upon what they describe as the political class and about the feeling, justified or otherwise, that we are all greedy, on the make, and so on? We have to be careful that we are not tarred with the same brush.