But education minister denies debacle calls into question Boris Johnson’s judgment
The education secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, has accepted the government committed errors in its attempt to save the former minister Owen Paterson from suspension, but denied the debacle called into question the prime minister’s judgment.
In a broadcast round, Zahawi accepted it was a “mistake” to try to link overhauling the standards system that had found Paterson guilty of paid advocacy, with a parliamentary attempt to preventing him facing the punishment of suspension.
