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The Conservative Mp at the centre of a row over parliamentary standards has resigned today saying he will remain a Public Servant outside the cruel world of politics. The former Northern Ireland minister, Owen Paterson was found to have broken Lobbying Rules and had been facing a 30 day suspension, which might have trigged a recall in his constituency. Except yesterday his fellow mps voted not to uphold the suspension and instead voted to overhaul the standards watchdog, the very body that had ruled against him. After an intense backlash from all directions this morning the government has performed an embarrasing u turn. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg has the detail. A different kind of protest. A different kind of attack to green activists busy in westminster today. Sleaze is the accusation against the government, corruption, the claim. A former minister has now quit as an mp after he was found to have lobbied the government more than a dozen times for companies who paid him th
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