A Tory MP has been secretly filmed offering to lobby ministers on behalf of gambling industry investors in exchange for financial reward in an undercover sting operation.
Scott Benton, MP for Blackpool South, was prepared to leak market sensitive information to an investment fund and ask parliamentary questions on its behalf, in breach of parliamentary lobbying rules, according to an undercover investigation by journalists at The Times.
The MP later had the party whip suspended, a spokesperson for Tory Chief Whip Simon Hart said, pending an investigation into the undercover footage.
