Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen is facing suspension after an investigation by openDemocracy revealed he lobbied ministers on behalf of a timber company that he worked for.
A cross-party committee of MPs today recommended that Bridgen, who represents the constituency of North West Leicestershire, should be suspended for five sitting days, for breaching rules on “registration, declaration and paid lobbying on multiple occasions and in multiple ways".
The standards committee said he had a “very cavalier attitude” to lobbying rules, and that he had separately made a “completely unacceptable attack” on the integrity of parliament’s independent standards commissioner while she was trying to investigate him.
