Even though Brexit is dominating the agenda the House of Commons has seen the Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott launch a ferocious attack on Sajid Javid for his decision to revoke Shamima Begum’s UK citizenship
Abbott thundered:
When she was 15, Shamima Begum made a very bad decision, and it is arguable that much of the tragedy that has engulfed her since then flows from it.
Can the Home Secretary explain why he deemed this 19-year-old, with a baby that was not quite three weeks old, more dangerous to Britain than the hundreds of foreign fighters who have already been allowed to return?
We understand the issue of keeping British people safe, but this was a British baby, who is now dead.”
The Tories across the chamber reacted in fury and Speaker John Bercow was forced to make an intervention as he slammed Tory Security minister Ben Wallace and his Parliamentary Private Secretary, Simon Hoare.
Bercow said:
Mr Wallace, please. I respect your governmental responsibilities and the seriousness with which you take them, but I appeal to you just to listen to these exchanges.
As for the Parliamentary Private Secretary, Mr Hoare, you are a junior Member of the House, trying to come to terms with your responsibilities as a PPS.
Your role is just to sit there and to nod or shake your head in the appropriate place.
It is not for you to sit there and give a running commentary on the performance of the shadow Home Secretary.
I have not the slightest interest in what you have to say, and you will say no more in the course of these exchanges or I shall have to ask you to relocate yourself.”
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