Andrew RT Davies to face Senedd vote about his conduct
Emily Price
Andrew RT Davies is facing a Senedd vote about his conduct from his fellow MSs this evening.
The former Tory leader was found to have broken Senedd rules last month when he failed to declare an interest whilst appealing to the First Minister to “stand up for Wales” on inheritance tax changes for farmers.
Mr Davies was absent along with the rest of his party when an official reprimand was read out by the Chair of the Senedd Standards Committee Hannah Blythyn on Wednesday afternoon (February 5).
Triggered
Normally when a standards report is tabled it goes through on the nod without a vote taking place.
But a vote was triggered when Labour MS Lee Waters objected to Ms Blythyn’s motion.
He accused the Tories of “boycotting” and “mocking” the standards process.
Posting a picture of empty Tory benches to social media, Mr Waters said: “Andrew RT Davies has again been found in breach of Senedd standards
“And again has refused to engage in the process and not attended to face the judgement of the cross-party Standards Committee
“And here are the Tory benches. A boycott. Not a single Tory MS. This is norm-spoiling behaviour.”
Reprimand
A Conservative source denied that it was a co-ordinated decision not to attend the official reprimand.
Mr Water’s intervention means that the Conservatives will be forced to acknowledge Mr Davies’ behaviour on the record.
The vote will take place at around 6:30pm tonight.
Today is the second time Mr Davies has failed to accept a slap on the wrist for breaking Senedd rules.
Last year his seat remained empty whilst he was censured for incorrect claims he made on social media.
Today’s reprimand was the latest in a series of breaches of the Senedd’s Code of Conduct by the Conservative MS.
He has been warned by the Standards Committee that if he is reprimanded again he could be hit with a cumulative sanction.
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This the same bloke that asked a nazi saluting foreign agent to interfere in the Senedd? (and musk is gutting US systems including medicare and medicaid to its own people).
Last I saw of him he was cosplaying Enoch Powell on twitter.
Hope they suspend him.
It’s time he was kicked outof the Senedd-he is a total disgrace to everything that is good
Antagonist Andrew RT Davies is a loose cannon. A poor man’s Nigel Farage. He’s not qualified to clean the Senedd toilets let alone be a MS. Some of the inflammatory language and rhetoric used was highly dangerous, from his Islamophobic remarks to the blatant lies told about the blanket 20 mph speed limit on social media where he inflamed and encouraged his followers, some who damaged & daubed roadsigns that could have endangered lives let alone cost the Welsh taxpayer thousands to repair. What will it take for this Conservative clown to shut up?.
It is very disappointing that the 2 Muslim MS’s did not turn up to this session to represent Muslims and their Islamic faith. I feel they have lost a large portion of their credibility.
ARTD crime in this case is and i quote “The former Tory leader was found to have broken Senedd rules last month when he failed to declare an interest whilst appealing to the First Minister to “stand up for Wales” on inheritance tax changes for farmers.” If it is a crime to back Welsh farmers as a SM then i think we need to get rid of the Senedd as it is a joke. This is blantant misuse of senedd rules by Lab
The Senedd is staying. Calling for any country to not have its own democratic process is just downright sick and completely and utterly disrespectful to the people of that country.
If democracy isn’t for someone, I hear North Korea is lovely this time of year.
So do you not understand what the charge is here or are you just deliberately making stuff up?