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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Henry Dyer and Rob Evans

Revealed: peer’s offer to get meetings with ministers for potential client

Graphic including photographic portrait of Dannatt looking at camera
Richard Dannatt said he had previously introduced a company, in which he was given a shareholding, to a minister and civil servants. Composite: Guardian Design/AP

A member of the House of Lords offered to secure meetings with ministers for a potential commercial client who wanted to lobby the government, the Guardian can reveal.

Richard Dannatt, a former head of the British army, was secretly filmed telling undercover reporters he could make introductions within the government and that he would “make a point of getting to know” the best-placed minister, despite rules prohibiting peers from lobbying.

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