Steve,

By the way, the "J-TV" that Teribus refers to is a YouTube channel calling itself the Global Jewish Channel. You can watch Shami quite properly "evading" the question

Having accepted the nomination, she was sworn to secrecy.
Otherwise she could just have answered no.
It happened on Newsnight too.

She accepted the peerage before or during her inquiry, which as Streeting quite properly said, "stinks."