Bridgen ‘should have apologised for code breach’ over loan – standards watchdog

The standards commissioner said Andrew Bridgen should have apologised to MPs for failing to declare a loan on time (Beresford Hodge/PA) - (PA Archive)

Andrew Bridgen should have apologised to MPs over a late declaration relating to a loan totalling more than £4 million, Parliament’s standards watchdog has said.

The former MP said he had not registered the funds from businessman and Reclaim Party donor Jeremy Hosking because they were to pay for a “strictly private” matter rather than political purposes.