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Nigel Farage took £10,000 gift from Gulf state
The Reform leader was gifted accommodation and passes to attend the Formula 1 in December
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Tory MP Andrew Bridgen faces suspension from the Commons for breaking lobbying rules
Bridgen had ‘demonstrated a very cavalier attitude to the House's rules on registration and declaration of interests, including repeatedly saying that he did not check his own entry in the register’.
Tories ditch plans to cap UK MPs’ earnings from second jobs following sleaze scandals
The government says a cap would be 'impractical'
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EXCLUSIVE: Majority of voters think Boris Johnson should’ve sacked Owen Paterson rather than letting him resign
57% of Conservative Party voters think Paterson should’ve been fired rather than be allowed to resign, as do 73% of Labour and Liberal Democrat voters and 80% of SNP voters.
EXCLUSIVE: More voters think rich will try to ‘buy’ influence from Tories than from Labour
A poll found that twice as many people thought the rich trying to 'buy' influence in the government was more likely with a Conservative government than under Labour.