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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Geraldine Scott

Messages show how disgraced MP Owen Paterson lobbied health secretary Matt Hancock for Randox

PA Wire

Whatsapp messages between Owen Paterson and then health secretary Matt Hancock have been released showing how the disgraced former MP lobbied for a firm that was paying him more than £8,000 a month.

Mr Paterson resigned from the Commons in November last year, after he was found to have lobbied – against parliamentary rules – on behalf of Randox, a health firm for which he was a paid consultant.

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