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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Ex-Boris Johnson ethics adviser Lord Geidt found to have broken Lords rules

Christopher Geidt
Christopher Geidt in 2015. As well as advising the former PM he was a royal aide to the late queen. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

A crossbench peer and former ethics adviser to Boris Johnson has been found to have broken House of Lords rules by joining a meeting with Ministry of Defence officials on behalf of a US satellite company that was paying him.

Christopher Geidt, a former royal aide to Queen Elizabeth II, was asked by the House of Lords conduct committee to write a letter of apology after the standards commissioner found he “provided a parliamentary service in return for payment or other reward”.

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