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03-11-2022, 02:18 PM | #1 | |||
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[A Tory MP should be suspended from the Commons for suggesting the standards commissioner's potential peerage depended on ruling against him over lobbying breaches, the Standards Committee has recommended Andrew Bridgen should be suspended for five sitting days, the parliamentary committee that oversees the work of the standards commissioner said. The committee found the MP had breached the Code of Conduct by making multiple approaches to ministers and public officials on behalf of Mere Plantations, a Cheshire-based teak reforestation company with forests in Ghana for which he was initially paid £12,000 a year as an adviser. He failed to register his interest in the company in the time frame stipulated by the code, with the committee saying he had a "very cavalier" attitude to the rules. The committee also found Mr Bridgen, the MP for North West Leicestershire since 2010, had attempted to improperly influence Standards Commissioner Kathryn Stone during her investigation into his lobbying. He emailed the commissioner shortly after the investigation started and implied she could be swayed with a peerage, as he claimed he heard a "rumour" she would only receive one if she ruled against him because he was an outspoken critic of then prime minister Boris Johnson. Mr Bridgen faces a suspension of two days for three breaches of the MPs' code of conduct and a further three for the "unacceptable attack upon the integrity" on Ms Stone. MPs will now have to vote on whether they accept that recommendation.] https://news.sky.com/story/tory-mp-a...mends-12737060 Last edited by arista; 03-11-2022 at 02:19 PM. |
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03-11-2022, 03:12 PM | #2 | |||
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This guy is unbelievable.
He oftens goes on GB News and Talk TV slagging off everyone and yet look at HIS behaviour in reality. You couldn't make it up. |
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03-11-2022, 03:36 PM | #3 | |||
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self-oscillating
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i think this will be another one dumped from the party
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03-11-2022, 04:50 PM | #4 | |||
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I do not think so, 5 days off, more like Last edited by arista; 03-11-2022 at 05:02 PM. |
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03-11-2022, 05:19 PM | #5 | |||
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self-oscillating
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it doesn't match with Sunak's integrity drive
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