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Conservative MP Tim Yeo, who chairs the Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee, is alleged to have used his position to help a private company influence Parliament.Sunday Times investigators secretly filmed the former environment minister.The paper alleges he coached the boss of a firm, owned by a company that was paying Mr Yeo, before the businessman gave evidence to his committee.Mr Yeo denies this, and says he intends to contest all the allegations.The BBC understands Mr Yeo has referred himself to the Parliamentary standards commissioner."Lobbying - attempting to influence politicians - goes on all the time and is perfectly legitimate," says BBC political correspondent Chris Mason.But he adds: "It's when allegations of money getting involved, or apparent conflicts of interest emerge, that it can get awkward."The Sunday Times is claiming its undercover reporters posed as representatives of a firm offering to hire Mr Yeo.He appears to tell them - in a conversation the paper videoed - that he had coached a representative of a firm that is a subsidiary of a company he is paid to work for, on what that representative should say when appearing in front of his committee.
Yeo goes!
Quote from: Barman on June 11, 2013, 04:50:04 AMYeo goes!
Sacked as an MP now, I do love the fact that they are saying it is despite the backing of doom from George and Bungle Dave http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10615478/Tim-Yeo-sacked-by-local-party-despite-backing-of-David-Cameron-and-George-Osborne.html
Quote from: Grumpmeister on February 03, 2014, 11:38:00 PMSacked as an MP now, I do love the fact that they are saying it is despite the backing of doom from George and Bungle Dave http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10615478/Tim-Yeo-sacked-by-local-party-despite-backing-of-David-Cameron-and-George-Osborne.htmlMost excellent news!
“I voted in favour of gay marriage, that wasn’t a universally held view among my members; I have a very great commitment to addressing climate change, that’s not a universally held view; I’m in favour of Britain's membership of the EU, that's not a universally held view either.”
