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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Henry Dyer

Watchdog opens fresh inquiry into Tory peer over possible PPE lobbying breach

Lord Chadlington pictured in 2012
Peter Gummer, Lord Chadlington, pictured in 2012. Photograph: Nick Harvey/Getty Images for Cartier

The House of Lords conduct watchdog has opened an investigation into the Conservative peer Lord Chadlington after new details about his introduction of a firm that was awarded £50m in PPE contracts were reported by the Guardian.

The inquiry by the standards commissioners into Chadlington, whose real name is Peter Gummer, follows a request sent by the Labour peer George Foulkes.

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