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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Sophie Wingate

MP Scott Benton has Tory whip suspended after offering to lobby for gambling industry investors

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Conservative MP Scott Benton has had the Tory party whip removed pending an investigation into undercover footage of him offering to lobby for gambling industry investors.

Mr Benton was prepared to leak market-sensitive information to an investment fund and ask parliamentary questions on its behalf, in breach of parliamentary lobbying rules, an undercover investigation for The Times found.

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