Letters: Readers respond to the Tory party closing ranks around a former minister accused of lobbying breaches
. The government acts as if both itself and MPs like Owen Paterson “should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else”.While, of course, the Paterson affair taints the whole Tory party with moral bankruptcy, it is surely not irrelevant to note what its cheerleaders have in common. Jacob Rees-Mogg defends and Boris Johnson demands party support, while Kwasi Kwarteng attacks parliament’s standards commissioner.
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