This is not accurate in @thetimes. I said I “shared the anguish of people over this whole episode”, echoing word for word what the PM said to the liaison committee. I specifically said resigning was not an issue for me - he works for the PM. Media seem to have lost it on this one

I learnt from the Scruton affair, and am now a Gov’t minister. We work as a team in the messy, painful world of politics without losing your personal identity/ethos/values and duty to a pretty annoyed constituency/Nation. I share the anguish of the whole thing but time to move on