The remaining public trust in MPs has been "shattered" by the Conservatives' handling of the Owen Paterson case, a senior SNP figure has claimed.
Pete Wishart - a long serving Nationalist MP - hit out at Boris Johnson and his party for failing to get to grips with allegations of sleaze.
The Tories last night voted through a proposal that is expected to lead to a ban on MPs taking paid political consultancy work.But the SNP and Labour abstained from the vote - with Keir Starmer claiming Conservative proposals were a watered down version of his own plan to clean up the Commons.Johnson yesterday admitted it was “a total mistake” to try to defend his former colleague Owen Paterson for breaking lobbying rules in a move that triggered a fortnight
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