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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Hamish Morrison

Two peers should be suspended over lobbying claims, sleaze watchdog says

TWO peers are facing suspension from the House of Lords after the upper chamber's sleaze watchdog found them to have broken lobbying rules.

The Lords Conduct Committee has recommended months-long suspensions for the Earl of Shrewsbury and Labour’s Baroness Goudie, with peers due to vote on the recommendations next month.

The Earl of Shrewsbury, whose full name is Charles Henry John Benedict Crofton Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, was found to have broken the Lords’ code of conduct “by providing parliamentary advice and services in return for payment”.

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