Brexit minister brazens out Commons drubbing over leaked impact assessmentsIts getting to be a habit. Another day,another minister called to the Commons to reply an urgent question on the government’s repeated insistence on turning Brexit into a farce. With David Davis unavailable and Robin Walker still in rehab after his working over the day before, this time it was Steve Baker’s turn to be the fall guy.
The jury is out on Baker. Some wonder whether he is an clever man trying to be silly or a silly man trying to be clever. On this showing, and the latter is still the more likely,though, to be objective, and he did have a thankless task. Before Christmas,Davis had tried to convince parliament that fictional impact assessments were in fact real. Now his sidekick was being asked to convince MPs that a genuine impact assessment, leaked to the press the night before, and was largely fictional.
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Source: guardian.co.uk