Committee backs watchdog’s findings that Bridgen took cavalier approach to rules about paid advocacy
The Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen faces suspension from the House of Commons and has been asked to apologise after a cross-party committee found that he took a “cavalier” approach to rules about paid lobbying.
The standards committee endorsed findings from Kathryn Stone, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, that Bridgen breached rules on paid advocacy and on registering interests, after he approached ministers and officials on behalf of a forestry company that gave him a donation and a visit to Ghana.
