We have long had on paper the ethical standards which are due by MPs and, since 2018, a law that led to the setting up of the respective commissioner entrusted with investigating breaches of ethical standards by ministers, MPs and persons of trust and contributing to the improvement of standards of behaviour in public life. As things stand at the moment, following years of innumerable revelations of dubious behaviour by many individuals in public office, I believe that it is a very damaging moment for parliament and for public standards in this country. It cannot be right that, debate after debate, the conclusions of the independent commissioner for standards and the house committee on standards, conclusions that arose from in-depth investigations, continue to be ignored, rebutted or outright rejected. It cannot be right to propose an overhaul of the entire regulatory system in order to postpone or prevent sanctions in very serious cases of ethical breaches by ministers and MPs. It cannot be right that this is frequently accompanied by repeated attempts to question the integrity of the commissioner for standards, whose office has been working within the system that parliament...