
Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen
(Picture: PA Archive)MPs will on Monday vote on suspending Andrew Bridgen from the House of Commons over his “careless and cavalier attitude" to lobbying rules and suggesting the woman investigating him could be bribed with a peerage.
The Tory MP made multiple approaches to ministers and public officials on behalf of Mere Plantations, a UK-based reforestation company with forests in Ghana, for which he was initially paid £12,000 a year as an adviser, a report by the Standards Committee found.