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Revealed: Tory MP was ‘fed’ propaganda by Azerbaijani embassy for parliamentary debates

Bob Blackman boasted: ‘On a regular basis I put down positions on behalf of our good friends in Azerbaijan’

By Thomas Rowley and James Dowsett
Revealed: Tory MP was ‘fed’ propaganda by Azerbaijani embassy for parliamentary debates
Conservative MP Bob Blackman boasted of being ‘fed’ propaganda by Azerbaijan | Zefrog / Alamy Stock Photo
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A senior Tory MP boasted that he was “fed” propaganda by the Azerbaijani embassy and used it to lobby the UK government, openDemocracy can reveal.

The admission came in a podcast where Bob Blackman, the MP for Harrow East and chair of the Azerbaijan All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), also said: “On a regular basis I put down positions on behalf of our good friends in Azerbaijan.”

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