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muriel_volestrangler

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1. Torygraph suggests it might be lockdown-party-related

Mon Dec 18, 2023, 12:01 PM

Dec 2023

However, Ms Cates is the fourth MP to be investigated by the Standards Commissioner after being linked to a drinks party that took place during lockdown.

She is reported to have been present at a birthday gathering for Baroness Jenkin, a Tory peer, and Virginia Crosby, a backbencher, in December 2020. She has not commented on the reports that she attended the event.

The Tory MP Sir Bernard Jenkin, the husband of Baroness Jenkin, is also said to have been there, along with Dame Eleanor Laing, the Deputy Speaker.

Ms Cates, Sir Bernard, Ms Crosby and Dame Eleanor are all being investigated by the Standards Commissioner under the same clause of the code of conduct.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/12/18/tory-mp-miriam-cates-investigated-by-standards-watchdog/

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My local Tory MP is in hot water! [View all] T_i_B Dec 2023 OP

Torygraph suggests it might be lockdown-party-related muriel_volestrangler Dec 2023 #1

I was thinking it might have been something elae T_i_B Dec 2023 #2

She seems to be a horrible person LeftishBrit Dec 2023 #3

She's never been personally horrible to me T_i_B Dec 2023 #5

I wasn't thinking that she'd been personally horrible to constituents.... LeftishBrit Jan 2024 #8

Given how many of the Tories have been at it* and it seems like the floodgates might have finally opened Emrys Dec 2023 #4

My MP is pretty forgettable... róisín_dubh Dec 2023 #6

Yeah, she's getting increasingly loonier the longer she stays in Westminster T_i_B Jan 2024 #7