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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom

Tory MP Andrew Bridgen suspended from Parliament over lobbying breach - for 5 days

Tory MP Andrew Bridgen has been suspended from Parliament for five sitting days days after breaching lobbying rules in a "significant litany of errors".

The Commons Standards Committee found he breached the MPs' code of conduct "on registration, declaration and paid lobbying on multiple occasions and in multiple ways".

MPs blasted his "careless and cavalier attitude" to the rules - and said once he was under investigation, he tried to "pressure" Parliament's Standards Commissioner with a “completely unacceptable attack" on her integrity.

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