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A TORY peer paid £12,000 a month to lobby MPs on behalf of a Caribbean tax haven escaped yesterday with a ticking off from fellow lords.
The House of Lords privileges committee ordered David Maclean to apologise after buying his claim he did not sell parliamentary services to the Cayman Islands government.
Campaigning MP Paul Flynn said the verdict was proof that the Lords “isn’t fit to police itself.”
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK