{"id":121156,"date":"2023-11-09T22:08:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=121156"},"modified":"2023-11-09T22:08:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:08:58","slug":"tory-minister-erupts-at-qt-panel-in-furious-row-over-braverman-its-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/tory-minister-erupts-at-qt-panel-in-furious-row-over-braverman-its-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"Tory minister erupts at QT panel in furious row over Braverman: ‘It’s boring!…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question Time: Tory minister says ministerial code argument is ‘boring’<\/h3>\n

Rows over who signed off Suella Braverman\u2019s explosive attack on the Metropolitan Police are \u201cboring\u201d, a Tory MP declared in an angry clash on Question Time.<\/p>\n

Welsh Secretary David TC Davies slammed Labour and Plaid Cymru politicians for making political points when Home Secretary Suella Braverman was warning \u201cJewish people are, at the moment, feeling unsafe\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Mrs Braverman has been under fire after she wrote a bombshell article apparently without Mr Sunak\u2019s permission accusing the police of \u201cplaying favourites\u201d by allowing pro-Palestine marches to go ahead.<\/p>\n

Mr Davies criticised Labour MP Chris Bryant and Plaid Cymru leader Liz Saville Roberts for obsessing over interpretations of the ministerial code, insisting the Question Time programme should instead be focusing on the horrific war in the Middle East and the impact of protests on Britain\u2019s communities ahead of Armistice Day on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Questioned over whether his Cabinet colleague had broken the code, he said: \u201cI\u2019ve read it, it’s a great big, long legal document and I can’t start interpreting whether it’s [a breach of the Ministerial code].<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I do support Suella on is saying is that those marches need to be a bit more respectful than they have been. That\u2019s the real issue here.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Plaid Cymru leader Liz Saville Roberts said: \u201cThe ministerial code matters, you can\u2019t just dismiss it\u201d, Mr Davies hit back: \u201cI\u2019m not dismissing it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich paragraph of the ministerial code is it? You don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThe argument is whether or not every single thing that you ever say or write has to be signed off. It\u2019s a rather boring argument. I don\u2019t know why we are discussing it with all that is going on in the Middle East and we\u2019ve got protests and you\u2019re talking about interpreting the ministerial code\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Davies also said of the Prime Minister he \u201ccan\u2019t possibly clear everything I say and do\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThe bureaucracy around how things get signed off is lost on most people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Downing Street was investigating how the article containing an inflammatory comparison between “pro-Palestinian mobs” and marches in Northern Ireland was still sent to the Times for publication.<\/p>\n

Conservatives expressed unease over the article as Opposition figures urged Mr Sunak to sack Mrs Braverman, who claimed the protesters are “largely ignored” by officers “even when clearly breaking the law”.<\/p>\n

Mrs Braverman had already called the demonstrations attended by thousands “hate marches” ahead of another rally in London coinciding with Armistice Day, despite Government objections.<\/p>\n

It is understood that the article was submitted to Downing Street, but did not get signed off as significant alterations were requested. The piece was published nonetheless.<\/p>\n

“The content was not agreed by No 10,” the Mr Sunak’s spokesman said. “The Prime Minister continues to believe that the police will operate without fear or favour.”<\/p>\n