Brexit minister brazens out Commons drubbing over leaked impact assessments
It’s getting to be a habit. Another day, another minister called to the Commons to answer 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 if he is an intelligent man trying to be stupid or a stupid man trying to be intelligent. On this showing, the latter is still the more likely, though, to be fair, 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, was largely fictional.
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