Another by-election looms for Rishi
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Paul Goodman, editor of Conservative Home.
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| 0:15.4 | Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots. |
| 0:21.1 | I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by Katie |
| 0:22.8 | police, the political edge of the Spectator, and Paul Goodman, editor of |
| 0:26.0 | Conservative Home. Now Katie, I think the big political story stay is the |
| 0:30.2 | Standard Committee recommendation against Scott Benton which exceeds the |
| 0:34.8 | ten day minimum needed to trigger the recall process after a petition there could |
| 0:39.0 | will likely be a by-election there in that Blackpool South seat. |
| 0:41.7 | Tell us what's likely to happen. |
| 0:43.9 | So as you say, it goes over 10 days. |
| 0:46.5 | Scott Benton faces being suspended from Parliament |
| 0:48.7 | for 35 days over what the Standards Committee |
| 0:52.1 | is called a very serious breach of Standards Rules. |
| 0:55.9 | And this relates to a story from a while ago where newspaper reporters posed as gambling industry |
| 1:02.0 | investors and he was caught offering to |
| 1:04.9 | lobby ministers table parliamentary questions and this is sparked from that now |
| 1:10.3 | you would expect this to go through and then you have a situation whereby he is |
| 1:14.9 | vulnerable to a recall petition and potential by-election so we're not on the by-election |
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