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Cayman Islands' lord let off with apology
Lords panel gives £12,000-a-month peer Maclean a slap on the wrist

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.”

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