Sir Gerald Kaufman has been an MP for 40 years Labour MP Sir Gerald Kaufman has accused Downing Street of writing to him using a false name and a false signature.
Sir Gerald said he received a reply to a letter sent to the Prime Minister’s office signed by a “Mrs E Adams”.
But when he called Downing Street to speak to Mrs Adams, he said he was told she did not exist but was a “computer generated name”.
Previous PMs always replied to his letters personally, Sir Gerald added.
Raising a point of order in the Commons he said: “What extraordinary events are taking place in 10 Downing Street whereby they send letters from somebody who doesn’t exist and expect one to accept this?”
Commons Speaker John Bercow said it seemed “peculiarly unfortunate” that the MP’s query had been dealt with in this way.
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