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    • Sunday, 5 June, 2022
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      Live news updates from June 6: Boris Johnson survives confidence vote, Zelensky meets troops in Donbas
    • Friday, 12 November, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      MPs must firmly tighten rules on second jobs, or lose them

      Standards need to be revamped to restore trust in Britain’s parliament

    • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
      Boris Johnson
      Tory MPs accuse Johnson of hypocrisy in crackdown on second jobs

      UK PM earned more than £4m from outside interests in last 14 years while London mayor and in parliament

    • Wednesday, 10 November, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      Chris Bryant: the Labour former priest trying to clean up parliament

      Chair of standards committee is leading a review of the rules around MPs’ second jobs

    • Monday, 8 November, 2021
      Martin Bell
      The Paterson saga shows a political system in need of serious repair

      Today may be better than the ‘fill your boots, boys’ era that preceded it but the potential for corruption is still there

    • Wednesday, 3 November, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      Tory MPs block suspension of former minister who broke lobbying rules

      Conservative politicians overhaul standards watchdog after Owen Paterson controversy

    • Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
      UK needs a lobbying regulator, review author recommends

      Nigel Boardman tells MPs that body should be able to ‘impose severe sanctions’ on those who break new statutory code

    • Tuesday, 26 October, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      Tory MP Owen Paterson facing parliamentary suspension for paid advocacy

      Former UK minister accused by watchdog of breaking lobbying rules on multiple occasions

    • Wednesday, 20 October, 2021
      David Cameron
      Cameron cleared over unregistered lobbying for US biotech group

      Former PM’s communication with government officials within the rules, says regulator

    • Friday, 1 October, 2021
      UK lobbying regulator probes David Cameron for second time this year

      Media reports suggest former prime minister lobbied two ministers on behalf of US biotech group Illumina

    • Thursday, 16 September, 2021
      Boardman inquiry recommends tighter UK lobbying rules

      Ex ministers and civil servants face call to impose legally binding restrictions on work after Whitehall

    • Friday, 10 September, 2021
      Philip Hammond
      Former chancellor Philip Hammond cleared of breaching lobbying rules

      Regulator accepts argument that approach to a senior civil servant falls within an exemption to rules

    • Wednesday, 11 August, 2021
      Philip Hammond
      UK lobbying regulator probes email Hammond sent on behalf of bank

      Former chancellor contacted Treasury official offering free access to software made by OakNorth, a start-up he advises

    • Sunday, 1 August, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The Conservatives and the whiff of chumocracy

      A shadowy club of elite political donors increases perceptions of cronyism

    • Friday, 30 July, 2021
      UK political party funding
      Elite Tory donors club holds secret meetings with Johnson and Sunak

      Conservative ‘Advisory Board’ is part of co-chair Ben Elliot’s mission to modernise governing party’s fundraising efforts

    • Monday, 14 June, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      Greensill scandal spurs call for tighter curbs on ex-officials entering private sector

      UK anti-corruption watchdog seeks up to 5-year ban on lobbying by former ministers and civil servants

    • Sunday, 13 June, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      UK anti-corruption watchdog chair calls for greater lobbying transparency

      Jonathan Evans says there needs to be a ‘level playing field’ with ex-ministers banned for up to 5 years

    • Thursday, 13 May, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      Greensill hearing: David Cameron grilled by MPs over failed lender - as it happened
    • Thursday, 29 April, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Gupta and Greensill inquiries are not enough

      The FT has reported evidence meriting an SFO investigation

    • Thursday, 22 April, 2021
      Cameron lobbied BoE and top Treasury official over Greensill

      Senior civil servant Tom Scholar tells MPs he received phone call and texts from former PM

    • Wednesday, 21 April, 2021
      Helen Thomas
      Dyson texts seem low-level sleaze but still raise lobbying questions

      Messages between entrepreneur and PM come as UK government is engulfed in Greensill scandal

    • Wednesday, 21 April, 2021
      Labour calls for ‘transparent’ lobbying inquiry after Dyson texts revealed

      Industrialist exchanged messages with Johnson over tax treatment when developing ventilator for NHS

    • Thursday, 15 April, 2021
      Tories reject parliamentary inquiry into lobbying

      ‘I only got into politics to make money after I left’

    • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
      Greensill Capital
      Cameron and Sunak set to give evidence to Greensill probes

      Commons committees prepare to call former PM and chancellor amid Labour accusations of ‘sleaze’

    • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
      News in-depth
      Greensill affair exposes opaque UK lobbying rules

      Oversight of ministerial and civil servant appointments needs reform, say transparency campaigners

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