Conservative MP Jane Hunt was mocked online this week for going on Sky News and describing her party’s whips as “welfare officers”. The interview came hours after William Wragg, the chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, spoke out about allegations of blackmail from the whips.
“It is, of course, the duty of the government whips’ office to secure the government’s business in the House of Commons,” Wragg said. “However, it is not their function to breach the ministerial code in threatening to withdraw investment from members of parliaments’ constituencies which are funded from the public purse.”
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