Charles walker mp biography of donald
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Charles Walker is a self-appointed champion of the backbenchers. “Parliament is a much greater institution than Government,” declares the Conservative MP for Broxbourne.
Eloquent and passionate about British democracy, he says: “I think Parliament is probably this country’s greatest achievement. We dismiss it so lightly now; we think Government is the only game in town, that that is the end game, but in fact Parliament underpins it all.”
Preferring the role of backbench MP as guardian of democracy and scrutineer of the executive, Walker despairs of “this fiction and modern narrative that we’re all just here waiting for promotion”.
He exclaims: “How can you be promoted from being a Member of Parliament? You can be asked to serve as a Minister of the Crown, but where did we get the idea that this is kind of a holding tank for people’s pure career aspirations?”
Full of historical nuggets about Westminster, he points out that up until the turn of the twentieth century, an MP tapped to become a minister would, by convention, have to offer a constituency by-election: a formality that nodded to the natural conflict of interest between the two roles.
He adds: “Now those sort of dividing lines don’t exist anymore. Parliament is seen as a vehicle of the Crown.”
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Skip to contentWhen I read that Boris Johnson, in resigning as an MP, had described the privileges committee of the House of Commons as a “witch-hunt”, I thought of Sir Charles Walker, one of the four Conservative members who constitute its majority. Sir Charles may not be a household name but that is partly because he has spent his 18 years as an MP largely focused on the procedures of the Commons itself.
He is a stickler for doing things correctly, is obsessively fair and averse to becoming embroiled in a plot — sometimes irritatingly so to any of us who h
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