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Westminster Week: Traditional values

Monday

It’s a busy Public Gallery for a Monday start, and the DWP is on the agenda. It’s a long-running saga that doesn’t let up, as a back and forth approach is taken by the main parties to issues of welfare.

If you thought it was all over, it definitely doesn’t look like it, in the near future, or otherwise.

Wednesday

Sir Julian Lewis MP (New Forest East/Conservatives) called out a “guilded, self-selecting class of people who think that their institutional importance is greater than truth or justice”, referring to people implicated in the Post Office scandal.

It’s a bit rich, coming from him.

Thursday

The Prime Minister faced the House of Common’s Liaison Committee. It’s one of only two occasions a year, and it’s not easy, by what I hear.