Tory MP Andrew Bridgen could face suspension from Commons

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Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen should beryllium suspended from the House of Commons for 5 sitting days, a cross-party committee of MPs has recommended.

The Standards Committee recovered the North West Leicestershire MP had displayed a "cavalier" cognition to lobbying rules.

It said helium had breached rules connected registration, declaration and paid lobbying "on aggregate occasions and successful aggregate ways".

The full House of Commons volition person to ballot connected immoderate sanction.

A suspension of 2 days has been recommended for breaches of 2 sections of the MPs' Code of Conduct and a further 3 days for what the committee describes arsenic an "unacceptable onslaught upon the integrity" of Standards Commissioner Kathryn Stone.

Mr Bridgen has antecedently denied immoderate wrongdoing.

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