I fully expect the right in this debate to defend parliamentary privilege - the right to say things in Parliament that in the outside world could lead to libel - but that’s not what this is about.

It’s about politicians knowingly or unknowingly lying to the House and never correcting the record.

It corrupts our whole political system because we should only legislate on known facts, not lies.

A serious sanction against lying to Parliament has to be enforced to enable democracy to continue.

@JugglingWithEggs @BBCRadio4 - I hope we can count on you to fully cover this.

It should start by giving the Speaker greatly enhanced powers to sanction MPs or Ministers even the PM, who do this. Right now, he has absolutely no executive power to do that. Then he is vilified for not taking action. The present one could certainly be tougher, but he has no teeth to bite with. He can only threaten to send a member out of the chamber, a threat he has so far failed to implement, as a response to rowdy behaviour. Not good enough.

because otherwise you will end up like America with politicians like Trump and MTG.
Learn from our mistakes, you can stop this now.

We in the United States need a law like this!

Following the convention in the Highway Code, there's at least one "should" in the gov response that should be "must".