Starmer dodges questions about ex Transport Secretary's fraud case

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00:00Mr Speaker he's obfuscating but I'm going to keep him on the topic. He owes the House

00:05an explanation. He said that the former Transport Secretary was only asked to resign after further

00:11information came to light. What was that further information?

00:16I'm not going to disclose private conversations. Further information came to light, the Justice

00:22Secretary resigned. As I say, what a marked contrast. Whilst she's obsessing with Westminster

00:29issues, we're getting on with fixing the mess, fixing the foundations, that £22 billion

00:35black hole, our prisons bursting, and Mr Speaker, as we found out last week, nearly a million

00:41net migration numbers because of the Tory open borders policy.

00:46Give me a pen.

00:47Mr Speaker, I'm not asking about migration, I'm asking about the former Transport Secretary.

00:52He never answers any questions. He never answers any questions and it looks like he didn't

01:04ask his Transport Secretary any questions either. The truth is he appointed a person

01:08convicted of fraud to the Cabinet. The first thing she did was bung hundreds of millions

01:13of pounds in pay rises to her trade union friends. Wasn't this a fraud on the British

01:19people?

01:20No, Mr Speaker, she says she's not talking about immigration. I'm not surprised. I advise

01:30her and all of them not to talk about the economy or immigration for another five years.

01:35Mr Speaker, you can try and change the topic as much as you like, but the public are watching.

01:41He owes them an explanation. The country needs conviction politicians, not politicians

01:47with convictions.

01:50Now on to an even bigger fraud.