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       Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has said the Government “should be ashamed” for its latest breach of the Ministerial Code following Monday's defence spending announcement. Sir Keir Starmer announced a major boost to the armed forces in the strategic defence review in Glasgow. The news was briefed to media the night before.

       However, this was a clear breach of Government rules, which say major announcements must be made to the House of Commons before anyone else. Rising to his feet in the Commons, a furious Speaker tore into the Government over this latest breach. He spat: “I am disappointed once again that the Government appears once again to have breached the principle of … the Ministerial Code – that when a Parliament is in session, the most important announcements of government policy should be made in the first instance in Parliament.”

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       Lucy Powell tried to defend the Government (Image: Parliament Live)

       “It is highly regrettable that ministers have chosen once again to hold a major media event before coming to this House and for the honourable members – I note that ministers, when they were in opposition, were not slow to complain when the previous government made major policy announcements outside Parliament.

       “I regard this as a particularly blatant breach … It’s amazing in opposition how everything should be discussed on the floor of the Gouse, but when in government, memories are short on that fight."

       He called it a "disregard for the members who sit on the back benches" and said: "I am here to defend the back benches.

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       “All I would say is it’s the Government’s Ministerial Code – they should be ashamed they’re not enforcing it.”

       Commons Leader Lucy Powell insisted the Government had followed the rules, listing occasions when policies were announced to Parliament.

       However, Sir Lindsay cut her off mid-flow to point out that this argument proves nothing.

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       He slammed: “I’m not satisfied. I think that’s the key. Both backbenchers quite rightly should hear it first. I don’t care how many have been done in the House – it’s the ones that haven’t been done we should be hearing about.”

       Shadow Commons Leader Jesse Norman described Ms Powell’s defence as “bordering on a contempt of Parliament itself”.

       He slammed: “It is yet another attempt to change the subject, blame others, and distract attention from the latest fiasco.

       “Evidently, the defence of the realm is not important enough to merit making its way up the list of priorities in the Government’s media handouts.”

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       “That came just days after it did the same thing on prisoners and on the UK-US trade deal, and of course the Chagos islands,” said Mr Norman.

       He accused the Government of showing “disdain for this house and democratic accountability”.