Scott Benton loses appeal against recommendation he should be suspended for 35 days for offering to lobby for gambling industry
Rishi Sunak faces another likely byelection defeat. The Commons independent expert panel, which deals with appeals from MPs accused of misconduct, has rejected an appeal from Scott Benton against a standards committee recommendation saying he should be suspended from the Commons for 35 days for offering to lobby on behalf of the gambling industry.
The 35-day suspension will have to be approved by the Commons as a whole, but that will be a formality. And once that has been agreed, because the suspension is longer than 10 days, the Recall Act kicks in, which means that if 10% of voters in the constituency sign a petition calling for a byelection, there will be one. In all recent cases, that 10% threshold has been achieved comfortably.
It did little for food productivity or the environment. It was far too bureaucratic. Just remember we used to argue about whether a cauliflower and cabbage were the same crop – and you could be fined thousands for a gateway being too wide or a buffer strip too narrow.
Continue reading… The Guardian Read More Scott Benton loses appeal against recommendation he should be suspended for 35 days for offering to lobby for gambling industryRishi Sunak faces another likely byelection defeat. The Commons independent expert panel, which deals with appeals from MPs accused of misconduct, has rejected an appeal from Scott Benton against a standards committee recommendation saying he should be suspended from the Commons for 35 days for offering to lobby on behalf of the gambling industry.The 35-day suspension will have to be approved by the Commons as a whole, but that will be a formality. And once that has been agreed, because the suspension is longer than 10 days, the Recall Act kicks in, which means that if 10% of voters in the constituency sign a petition calling for a byelection, there will be one. In all recent cases, that 10% threshold has been achieved comfortably.It did little for food productivity or the environment. It was far too bureaucratic. Just remember we used to argue about whether a cauliflower and cabbage were the same crop – and you could be fined thousands for a gateway being too wide or a buffer strip too narrow. Continue reading…
