Tory backbenchers attempted to sabotage documentary on Westminster

It’s emerged that a group of unnamed Tory backbench MPs tried to covertly put a stop to a documentary about goings on in Westminster.

Michael Cockerell the documentary-maker, who’s well known for making ‘Hotline to the President’ that analyses Britain’s relationship with the US, said he was tipped off by House of Commons Doorkeepers.

He explained that “the doorkeepers are eyes and ears of the place and the internal security system.”

It was through them that he found out about the plan which was for “to knock our cameraman over, so that proceeding would be suspended. It was thwarted by the man in charge of security.”

Cockerell’s four-part documentary (each episode an hour long), entitled ‘Inside the Commons’ will include exclusive images shot from the benches of the Commons during PMQs.

When asked about what had happened to the MPs in question once the plot had been uncovered, he said: “In Parliament every day there are cunning plans, it is a place that is made for plotting and conspiracies.”