Nick Brown made for an entertaining guest at the regular lobby correspondents’ lunch today. The chief whip is a surprisingly good raconteur.
But he also made a robust attack on some of his own MPs, accusing some of them of “idleness”.
“What impresses me is just how hard some people are working,” he said. “They wouldn’t have to work quite so hard if one or two of them did a little bit more.” Brown is considering a new regime to force more idle MPs to attend a certain number of standing committees of statutory committees, he revealed.
“It’s not unreasonable for taxpayers to expect members of Parliament to be in regular attendance at the House of Commons, and not unreasonable for people who voted Labour at the election to expectg them to vote Labour in the House of Commons.”
Jim Pickard
Kiran Stacey
