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Insider Research
Understanding the heart of Westminster
Tuesday 22nd September 2009 | 11:01
Phi100: Baroness Scotland must stand down
There is a clear consensus view among the political community that Baroness Scotland should stand down now that she has been fined for employing an illegal migrant
Baroness Scotland – who has just been fined for employing an illegal migrant as her housekeeper – should resign or if necessary be sacked, in the view of most political insiders.
That’s the latest result from the PoliticsHome Phi100 – the UK’s most authoritative survey of insider and expert political opinion. The Phi100 panel includes senior government ministers and opposition frontbenchers as well as leading media commentators, party strategists, think tank heads and academics.
A substantial majority of the panel (seventy one per cent) think that Baroness Scotland should resign. A comparable proportion of the panel (sixty six per cent) believe that if she does not resign, Gordon Brown should sack her.
These views are shared by left and right-leaning panellists (though the right believe much more strongly that she should go), as well as the non-aligned.
'Lawmakers can't be lawbreakers'
A right-leaning thought leader said: ‘Lawmakers can't be lawbreakers, particularly when she made this very law.’
A Tory MP believed: ‘Allowing her to remain in place would become a metaphor for the government's failures elsewhere including ministers expenses abuses - Do as I say, not as I do.’
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easynow
Not going to happen...labour look after their own....party before the people...we all "knew" this...but its taken 12 years to "realize" this .
the uk is"ruled" by a cabal of liars, thieves, and criminals
gordon the gopher
It will not happen, look at how long smith and blears took to go. Gordon is spineless, perhaps if the prince of darkness had a word they might be persuaded. if she does go she will go with full pension for life and 2 years salary!
A J Scott
So these pundits "think": but what effect is it having on the PM and his wretched cabinet? And answer came there NONE.
toryboy
To leave our parliament with any morsel of legitimacy it has left, Baroness Scotland must resign. If the director of a company wasn’t to adhere to employment legislation he would be sacked or forced to resign. If she wishes to continue to earn a salary then the same rules simply must apply.