Tory confronted over 'pot, kettle, black' criticism of Tulip SiddiqSource: BBC
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00:00Your current shadow foreign secretary, Preeti Patel, was found to have broken the ministerial
00:04code when she was in government over bullying claims, yet she didn't resign, nor was she
00:10sacked.
00:11So I think if Labour's defence of all this is, oh, we're just the same as the last
00:14Conservative government, that's very telling.
00:16I'm asking about your position and whether, if it's a bit pot, kettle and black.
00:21We have a role now in opposition.
00:25The voters delivered their verdict on the Conservatives at the election and we are no
00:29longer in power, but it is our job to hold the government to account.
00:33And this Prime Minister has a very bad lack of judgement, and even now he's trying to
00:39minimise it.
00:40He's very sad that she's gone, and people like Natalie have to come on the television
00:45and defend the bad decisions by her party leader.
00:49And Preeti Patel not resigning over bullying claims when she was found to have breached
00:53the ministerial code, nor being sacked by the Prime Minister at the time?
00:57That seems a world away now, doesn't it?
00:58It still happens.