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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

‘Rude, arrogant and entitled’: MPs line up to condemn disgraced Andrew

Chris Bryant in blue suit speaking in Commons
Chris Bryant told the Commons Andrew was ‘a man on a constant self-aggrandising and self-enriching hustle’. Photograph: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA

MPs are usually wary of openly criticising British royals in the Commons. Tuesday was a notable exception. Aside from the fact that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested over allegations of misconduct in public office as a trade envoy, the speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, let it be known that there was no prohibition on criticising royals in the chamber.

And so a number of MPs did:

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