Busuttil: Muscat's Singapore trip with Mizzi and Schembri is 'in bad taste' - Opposition call for PMQs being turned down

The Prime Minister's decision to travel to Singapore with minister Konrad Mizzi and chief of staff Keith Schembri is in 'bad taste' in view of the Panama Papers scandal, and shows that Dr Muscat has no shame, Simon Busuttil said this morning. The Opposition leader also said that Dr Muscat is refusingan Opposition proposal for Prime Minister's Questions to be introduced once weekly in Parliament. "It shows he lacks transparency, he fears questions in the same way as he has refused to face me on Xarabank for two years," the Opposition leader told a Radio 101 interviewer this morning. Dr Busuttil said changes to parliament's Standing Orders - due to be debated in the House tomorrow - reflected the government's mentality of holding control over everything and everyone. Although the government had been elected with a nine-seat majority, instead of parliament being given more powers and a stronger voice, the government was reducing MPs' speaking time and easing quorum rules. Voting was being limited to Wednesdays only, so that ministers could continue to do what they wished. It was one thing to limit voting to one day when a government had a one-seat majority but ministers still...