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'We don't need it in the house' MP Dehenna Davison wades into Dawn Butler row


Davison was on  alongside , and the pair were talking about how Butler was told to leave the House of Commons over the remark. Davison commented that the house “doesn’t need” such comments. The channel, fronted by , broadcast a debate over the issue, and Davidson had a strong view on the topic.

Speaking in the House of Commons, Butler said: “The Prime Minister has lied to this house time and time again.

“And it’s funny that we get in trouble in this place for calling out the lie rather than the person lying.”

She was told by the speaker to “reflect” on her words and withdraw her remarks.

“Somebody needs to tell the truth in this house that the Prime Minister has lied,” Butler replied.

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Farage commented: “You cant say you’re a liar, and you can’t say someone’s drunk, I think they’re the only two things that are out of bounds aren’t they?”

“I’m sure there are other things,” Davidson replied. “But I wouldn’t want to talk about them on live daytime television.

“No, I think the point is manners in parliament is really important and that’s why there’s so much of this drawn into procedures.”

She continued: “We are there to debate policy – we’re not there to get personal, we’re not there to attack others.

“Frankly,” she went on, “We get enough rubbish from outside the house.

“We don’t need it in there as well.” She then asked Arlene Foster what her view was.

The former First Minister of Northern Ireland replied: “I do fundamentally believe that you need to have space for civilised debate.

“And that’s why we have these rules in the first place, because where does it end? If you allow ‘you are a liar’ then it just goes into the sort of abuse that we see on social media all the time.”

She claimed: “Dawn Butler knew exactly what she was doing, she knew what was going to happen, she was going to get a lot of attention, she was going to get a lot of publicity and of course that’s exactly what happened.”

Not everyone agreed though, and one viewer took to Twitter to say: “What should make Britain Great is that a woman, not only a woman but a black woman, not only a black woman but a black woman with a different opinion of the Prime Minister is allowed to say what she wants in a free country.”

Another argued: “The ‘rule’ she broke, first came about to try and reduce the frequency of duels between members who felt insulted and bound to demand satisfaction on the field of honour, i.e. in a duel. The euro-parliament was too new to be worried about that sort of thing!”

“My comment in @UKParliament would be ‘1% of MPs don’t lie’! @HouseofCommons,” a third commented.





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