Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle was right to grant the request from numerous MPs, including the leader of the opposition, for a debate on whether to refer the prime minister to the Committee of Privileges.
He could only have reasonably refused if the move by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch and others had been “frivolous”, which it was not, although the timing, just before the May elections, is hardly coincidental. It is, in any case, a debate that the prime minister should relish.
