Nov. 1 () –
The president of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Lindsay Hoyle, has concluded this Tuesday that there was no intimidation against conservative parliamentarians to vote in favor of a motion on fracking presented by Labor on October 20 that was understood as a vote of confidence for the government of then-former Prime Minister Liz Truss.
“The atmosphere was tense and members were raising their voices to make themselves heard, but there is no evidence of intimidation or undue influence on other members,” Hoyle said, adding that “the crowd made it difficult to see what was really going on,” according to picked up the newspaper ‘The Guardian’.
Thus, Hoyle has stated that, in the framework of his investigation into the events, he asked several members about these apparently violent physical contacts, to which one of them said “clearly” that no one was being forced to enter the room. to cast their vote for Truss.
Likewise, the president of the Chamber has stressed that it is necessary for parliamentarians to treat each other with respect, at the same time that he has said that he takes complaints of intimidation “very seriously”, for which he will take “rapid measures when necessary” to address inappropriate behavior in the Chamber.
Some 40 parliamentarians abstained or decided not to vote on a motion presented by Labor on October 20 on ‘fracking’, a practice used to extract fossil fuels that the ‘tories’ clearly opposed in the campaign prior to the last elections.
The vote in the House of Commons was understood as a vote of confidence in the then government of former Prime Minister Liz Truss and caused a stir within the Conservative caucus, with contradictory information about expulsions if any member broke party discipline. Number 10 subsequently changed his mind on this point at the last minute.
In fact, the head of the Conservative parliamentary group, Wendy Morton, had to deny having been dismissed from her post for being among the abstentionists, while some Conservative parliamentarians denounced alleged intimidation to give positive votes to Truss during the fracking vote.
In this regard, Labor MP Chris Bryant urged an investigation within Parliament after observing several scenes in which Business Minister Jacob Rees Mogg and Deputy Prime Minister Therese Coffey heatedly pressured their colleagues. to support Truss.
After this controversy and the successive resignation requests that had been accumulating for months, in public and without hot cloths, Truss finally decided to appear before Downing Street to assume that he did not have the capacity to fulfill the mandate that his own colleagues gave him.
