The key figures in the Owen Paterson debacle were all Leavers. To many Remainers, that will come as no surprise
There is a close link between the parliamentary sleaze scandal and – you’ve guessed it – Brexit.
The plotters who tried scandalously to exonerate Owen Paterson and undermine the course of parliamentary justice were all Brexiters – some of them extremely so. From Paterson himself to the prime minister, who attended the dinner where the plot was hatched, taking in the leader of the house, Jacob Rees-Mogg, who enthusiastically supported it, they all share responsibility for what is now being increasingly recognised as the catastrophe of Brexit. For, make no mistake about it, Brexit was, and remains, a sleazy operation.
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