"[After an intervention by Jacob Rees-Mogg on her tweets, which he said had a "perception of bias": I] made it my business to find out whether or not it would mean that the government would not have confidence in me if I continued to chair the committee. [...] I was assured that I should continue the work that the House had mandated with the appointment that the House had put me into and so I did just that."
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