00:00Mr. Speaker, at a time of turmoil in the markets, the Prime Minister was distracted by the crisis
00:05around the former city minister. What does it tell us about his judgement that yesterday
00:11he said he was saddened that his close friend resigned? This was an anti-corruption minister
00:18under criminal investigation for corruption. Mohammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize winner advising
00:25Bangladesh, said London properties gifted to the former city minister may be proceeds
00:33of robbery. So, will the Prime Minister offer Bangladesh the full support of our national
00:39crime agency in ensuring that any properties bought with stolen funds are properly investigated?
00:45Prime Minister, the former city minister referred herself to the independent adviser. He found,
00:54as she well knows, there was no breach of the code. He knows that he found there was
01:01no wrongdoing, and the former minister fully co-operated. She referred herself a week ago
01:07Monday. I got the report yesterday, and she resigned yesterday afternoon. Compare that
01:14with the shadow Foreign Secretary, who breached the ministerial code. Her predecessor, Batu,
01:20ignored it. It was the adviser who then had to resign because he was not taken seriously,
01:27and she is now serving the Leader of the Opposition. What a contrast. Thank God the British public
01:33chucked them out.
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