Boris Johnson encountered one of the most turbulent weeks of his premiership

as a scheme to reform parliamentary standards and save one of his own MPs backfired spectacularly.

The seven principles of public life that all governments have espoused for over 25 years

require that ministers and MPs should show leadership in upholding ethical standards in public life.

I find it hard to see how yesterday's actions in any way meet that test.

Welcome to Payne's Politics, your central insider guide to what's happening in British

Politics from the Financial Times, with me Sebastian Payne. In this episode we'll be discussing

the chaos surrounding the botched reform of parliamentary standards, as referenced by Lord Evans,

who's the Chair of the Standards Committee and Public Life at the top. We'll be looking at

Wyne No. 10 was so eager to save the disgraced Tory MP Owen Patterson and where this round goes

next. Political editor George Parker, political commentator Robert Swimsley,

and our political correspondent Laura Hughes will explain all.

And later, we'll be looking at the first week of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow,

where over 100 world leaders gathered to make headway on climate change.

Breakthroughs were made on cash and deforestation, but there was scant progress on coal.

Leslie Hook, our environment correspondent and chief political correspondent Jim Picard,

will take us behind the scenes. With much disgust, we're going to get straight into the

main topic of this week.

Owen Patterson was best known in Westminster as a hard Brexit campaigner, a long-standing Tory MP,

and a former environment secretary who once argued that Badgers had moved the Go Posts.

Now, his name will always be a byword for Sleeze. Patterson was found to have committed an

egregious breach of the lobbying rules by the standards commission. Instead of accepting a 30-day

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