Former culture secretary says reopening of process to allow Dacre to reapply shows ‘proper, independent process’
Starmer’s LBC interview is now over. I will post a summary shortly.
Labour has announced that, as well as scheduling a vote on Wednesday saying MPs should be banned from having paid directorships and consultancies, it will also have a vote on a motion calling for “the publication of the papers relating to Owen Paterson’s advocacy for Randox and all government contracts they received”.
While the prime minister has failed to act, Labour is taking the lead by giving MPs the chance to end the sort of dodgy lobbying that Owen Paterson was guilty of. It should be a point of consensus that paid directorships and commercial lobbying are not jobs for MPs. The only people MPs should be lobbying for is their constituents.
The prime minister has admitted the Paterson motion ‘could have been handled better’; Wednesday is a chance to show he means it. Boris Johnson should call on his MPs to do the right thing and vote to publish the Randox papers, end dodgy lobbying and show that standards in public life still matter.
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