MPs cheer Harriet Harman’s ‘mic-drop’ response to Jacob Rees-Mogg during debate

The chair of the Commons privileges committee Harriet Harriet has defended the work of her panel.

The senior Labour chair clashed with Johnson loyalist Jacob Rees-Mogg in a feisty Commons exchange – telling him Rishi Sunak’s government had backed her leadership of the cross-party committee.

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