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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch urges Labour MPs to vote for a motion to refer Sir Keir Starmer to Parliament's privileges committee. The move would seek to determine whether Starmer misled the House over the vetting of former US ambassador Peter Mandelson. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The fact that there are so few cabinet ministers sitting on the front bench, they've had to dig deep to
00:06the bottom of the barrel for junior ministers to come and sit there, I think shows that they're struggling to
00:11get support for this.
00:12But let me tell Labour, I'm going to make some progress, Mr Speaker. I would say very gently, in fact
00:20kindly, I would say kindly to Labour MPs, as I've been asked to, that if they vote against this motion
00:25today, they are admitting that Labour has lower standards and should be held to a lower standard than everyone else.
00:33Because when they were elected, they promised their constituents integrity and higher standards, and I'm sure for most of them,
00:39at the time, they meant it.
00:41This country is the mother of all parliaments. This vote today is about parliaments. It's not about the Labour Party.
00:47It is about the Prime Minister being held to account.
00:50To those people saying this is a stunt, this is about whether the Prime Minister is accountable, not just to
00:56the opposition, but to them and their own constituents.
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