Ms Duffield, the Labour MP for Canterbury, mentioned Ms Elphicke ought to be suspended from the parliamentary occasion – which implies having the whip withdrawn – pending the result of an investigation.
Chatting with the BBC, she mentioned: “I feel that if the shoe was on the opposite foot, if she was nonetheless formally a Conservative MP, we’d rightly be calling for this to be completely investigated and that is what ought to occur on this case.”
She drew a comparability with Diane Abbott’s suspension for remarks about racism and added “in different severe instances, like sexual allegations, earlier than the investigation is completed the whip is eliminated and other people suspended briefly”.
When it was put to her that the Labour Get together was not planning to research, she mentioned: “I feel that is massively hypocritical and I feel anyone watching would suppose, ‘effectively hold on, if that was a Tory MP that is precisely what we might be calling for from the dispatch field’ and due to this fact that ought to apply when it is certainly one of our personal MPs, which apparently Natalie now could be.”
She added she had “no cause to consider” Sir Robert, who was justice secretary and Lord Chancellor on the time, “has any cause to make this up”, calling him “a drastically revered MP”.
