Owen Paterson, the disgraced former Tory minister, did a “ring round” weeks after leaving government in an attempt to get a second job as a consultant, openDemocracy has learned.
Paterson resigned last week after being found guilty of an “egregious” breach of parliamentary rules by lobbying for two businesses while he was still a backbench MP.
He was paid for consultancy work by a health diagnostic firm, Randox Laboratories, and a meat processing firm, Lynn’s Country Foods, both of which are based in Northern Ireland.
