Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
On BBC1 this morning,, the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was shown a clip of his leader making those comments.
Presenter Victoria Derbyshire told him: “He said that when he had someone sitting on his shadow frontbench, ie Louise Haigh, with a conviction.”But Derbyshire pointed out: “He gave her a job in Cabinet when he knew she had a past conviction.” McFadden replied: “It’s not the case that anyone who’s ever broken the law can’t sit in parliament. I’m sure if you looked around parliament you’d find more than one, I don’t know everybody’s background.”McFadden said: “I don’t know the details of every conversation that took place at the end of last week, but clearly between them they came to the view that Louise had to resign.”
But Derbyshire asked him: “Is Keir Starmer a hypocrite because he gave a lawbreaker a job in his Cabinet having said that two years ago.” The minister said: “No he’s not. I think he’s appointed a good Cabinet, it’s a more united Cabinet than I’ve seen in many years and we’re working together.”
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