Six months if you defy MPs
Committee of privileges still wants to imprison people who don’t turn up
The Commons privileges committee slipped out a report yesterday recommending that members of the public — but not MPs or peers — should face six months in prison for failing without reasonable excuse to attend a Commons committee or produce papers.
I had argued against this proposal in written and oral evidence last year.
The committe…
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