Quiz of The Week: 30 October - 5 November

“Sleaze” was the word on everybody’s lips this week after Boris Johnson whipped Tory MPs to vote in favour of overhauling the parliamentary standards watchdog.

In what The Times described as “an assault on the integrity of the political system”, the Commons voted in favour of reforming Parliament’s disciplinary system, in an apparent effort to block the suspension of former cabinet minister Owen Paterson for breaching lobbying rules.

All opposition parties opposed the move, with 13 Conservative MPs also rebelling to vote against the plan. Under intense scrutiny, Johnson later U-turned, retreating from the reform proposals and ending Paterson’s career in the process.

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Need a reminder of some of the other headlines over the past seven days?

• As allegations of sleaze dominated headlines, a report by the Committee on Standards in Public Life said that breaches of lockdown rules and other scandals during the Covid pandemic had eroded public trust in MPs
• Police in Australia found a missing four-year-old girl alive and well more than two weeks after she disappeared during a camping trip. A man was arrested after Cleo Smith was discovered in a raid on a house in the western coastal town of Carnarvon
• A major study found that the HPV vaccine reduces cervical cancer rates by 87% in women in their 20s
• Russia reported its highest daily Covid-19 death toll to date, amid widespread vaccine scepticism
• MEPs landed in Taiwan for a visit that Beijing warned risks undermining the EU’s “one-China policy”
• And a top European official warned of the “​​very real” threat of a fresh conflict in Bosnia triggered by Serb separatist activity.