A Conservative hereditary peer breached lobbying rules by failing to register as a consultant lobbyist before contacting ministers on behalf of his client, a Whitehall watchdog has found.
The Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists (ORCL) announced on Friday the outcome of its investigation into the Earl of Shrewsbury – whose full name is Charles Henry John Benedict Crofton Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot – and his company Talbot Consulting Ltd.
