A senior Conservative has said that British prime minister Boris Johnson is refusing to give MPs a say on cuts to Britain’s humanitarian aid budget because the government would lose a vote on the matter.
“The government wouldn’t be trying to avoid a vote if they thought they could win it,” former Tory minister Chris Patten told openDemocracy.
“The government increasingly gives us the impression that when they say taking back control they don’t mean Parliament having control, they mean the Executive having control, with as little control for Parliament as possible,” he added.
