Dominic Raab says it was a “mistake to conflate” the case of Owen Paterson and the wider parliamentary standards system ‘for making sure you have due process’.
The Deputy PM also told Sky News that Mr Paterson has not been offered a peerage, and that there are no plans to offer one.
On the subject of releasing Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Mr Raab added that it’s a “top priority” of foreign secretary, Liz Truss.
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