Madam Speaker, the Prime Minister also wrote to his ministers to inform them that the performance of their official duties and the arrangement of their private affairs should bear the closest public scrutiny.
He went on to say, “This is an obligation that is not fully discharged by simply acting within the law.” Those instructions seem very clear to me. Nevertheless, the Minister of Finance is defending himself by saying that he acted within the law.
Why is the Prime Minister refusing to make his ministers obey the instructions that he himself gave them?