‘Difficult to see future’ of Kathryn Stone, says business secretary after Tories vote to tear up system amid Owen Paterson row
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The business secretary has suggested parliament’s standards commissioner should consider quitting, after the government voted to tear up the independent system for combating sleaze among MPs.
Kwasi Kwarteng said he “doesn’t feel shame at all” and insisted the move would restore probity in public servants, in the face of a huge backlash over the move to rescue the former cabinet minister Owen Paterson from a 30-day Commons suspension and possible byelection.
