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Senior judge recommends scaling back of Commons standards tsar’s dual role

Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Kathryn Stone should have her decision-making powers stripped back and the Commons be banned from amending reports into MPs’ rule breaches, a review of the standards system has recommended. The Commons Committee ...

04 Mar 2022 at 10:25

Public are very angry over MP second jobs – Commons standards tsar

The Commons standards tsar has said the public is angry over MPs’ second jobs as she called for changes to transparency rules. Kathryn Stone said her office had received “an awful lot of letters” containing the views of “very angry” members of the ...

26 Jan 2022 at 14:25

Small number of badly behaved MPs should not ‘tarnish’ Parliament, watchdog says

The behaviour of a small number of MPs should not be allowed to “tarnish” the reputation of Parliament as a whole, the new Commons standards watchdog has warned. Daniel Greenberg, the new Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, said the ...

18 Jan 2023 at 00:33

‘Watch your back’: Ex-standards commissioner tells of warning from Tory MP

Parliament’s former standards watchdog said she was told “watch your back” by a Conservative MP, as she described her bruising experience in the role. Kathryn Stone, who was parliamentary commissioner for standards until the end of last ...

29 Mar 2023 at 18:53

MPs not taking lobbying problems seriously, professional body says

MPs are not taking problems with lobbying seriously enough, the professional body for lobbyists has said. Despite a string of recent scandals, a report by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations said little had been done to ...

25 Apr 2023 at 00:01

How Tory fortunes reversed in the 100 days since Owen Paterson vote

At the beginning of November 2021, Boris Johnson looked unassailable. His party enjoyed a solid poll lead after an upbeat conference while Mr Johnson welcomed world leaders to Cop26 in Glasgow and eyed another decade as Prime ...

10 Feb 2022 at 10:55

Lobbyists call for action on transparency as Labour plans ban for ex-ministers

Labour’s plans to ban ex-ministers from lobbying the government for five years after leaving office are “encouraging” but need to go further, lobbyists have said. Along with the lobbying ban, the party is considering a ...

31 May 2023 at 11:22

Owen Paterson takes Government to European court over lobbying probe

Former Tory Cabinet minister Owen Paterson is taking the Government to the European Court of Human Rights over a ruling by Parliament’s standards watchdog that he broke lobbying rules. The ardent Eurosceptic, who ...

22 Nov 2022 at 18:13

Sleaze, U-turns and falling polls behind push for vote on Johnson’s future

The Sue Gray report may have provided the catalyst for Monday evening’s vote of confidence in Boris Johnson, but Conservative grievances with the Prime Minister stretch back much further. Those problems began ...

06 Jun 2022 at 11:39

Paterson’s links to Covid test supplier ‘not a conflict’, Bethell tells inquiry

Ex-MP Owen Paterson’s involvement with a company awarded a contract to supply millions of Covid tests was not a conflict of interest, a former minister told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. Randox was awarded a ...

19 Mar 2025 at 13:08

Bercow likely to reoffend as he has shown no remorse, says ex-Black Rod

John Bercow is likely to reoffend as he has shown “absolutely no remorse” after an independent report upheld 21 bullying and harassment complaints against him, a former Black Rod has said. Ex-military ...

10 Mar 2022 at 11:25

Messages show how disgraced MP Paterson lobbied minister Hancock for Randox

Whatsapp messages between Owen Paterson and then health secretary Matt Hancock have been released showing how the disgraced former MP lobbied for a firm that was paying him more than £8,000 a month. ...

04 Feb 2022 at 18:55

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