Government sources apparently rule out place in Lords for former minister at centre of lobbying row
Boris Johnson has no intention of placing Owen Paterson in the House of Lords, government sources have indicated.
Speculation that the former Conservative cabinet minister might get a peerage, despite the Commons standards committee ruling that he committed an “egregious case of paid advocacy” in defiance of Commons rules, was triggered by a lobby briefing on Friday at which the PM’s spokesperson pointedly refused to rule out the prospect.
