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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason and Aubrey Allegretti

Revealed: senior Tory MP was paid £2,000 a month by lobbying firm

Bim Afolami speaks during PMQs in the House of Commons.
Bim Afolami launched the Regulatory Reform Group earlier this year. Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA

A senior Tory MP has been criticised for failing to declare he was paid £2,000 a month to chair a pressure group lobbying Rishi Sunak.

Bim Afolami, a former vice chair of the Conservative party, declared in the register of interests that one of his private clients was a public affairs firm, WPI Strategy. But he did not mention that they were paying him for his work running the Regulatory Reform Group of MPs.

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