In a report, the parliamentary. standards watchdog said he had repeatedly broken lobbying i rules while working as a paid consultant for two firms. borisjohnson wanted to save his friend and former minister owen paterson from being punished for breaking the paid lobbying rules. his plan? create a new conservative controlled committee to review the work of the standards watchdog. i think the thing that the paterson affair tells us most about is the government s attitude towards parliament. opening up the whole questions about how mps are dealt with by parliament, how the standards process works. but, on the basis of trying to save one individual case, and that blew up in their face. the ayes to the right, 238! the noes to the left, 232!
0wen paterson affair. in a report, the parliamentary. standards watchdog said he had repeatedly broken lobbying i rules while working as a paid consultant for two firms. borisjohnson wanted to save his friend and former minister 0wen paterson from being punished for breaking the paid lobbying rules. his plan? create a new conservative controlled committee to review the work of the standards watchdog. i think the thing that the paterson affair tells us most about is the government s attitude towards parliament. opening up the whole questions about how mps are dealt with by parliament, how the standards process works. but, on the basis of trying to save one individual case, and that blew up in their face. the ayes to the right, 238!