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Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59154221
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Conservative Owen Paterson has avoided punishment for now as the government ordered its MPs to back a review of standards investigations.
The result of the vote was met with cries of "shame" from opposition MPs.
Mr Paterson was found to have misused his position as an MP to benefit two companies he worked for.
But he said the probe into his conduct was unfair - and the government backed plans by his allies to overhaul the system.
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However, thirteen Conservatives voted against the amendment, while 98 had no vote recorded - which could either be a deliberate abstention or they could have just not been able to vote.
Aaron Bell - a Tory who opposed the amendment - said the proposals made it look "like we're moving the goalposts" and that any reform of the rules needed support across the House of Commons.
Liberal Democrat chief whip Wendy Chamberlain described the amendment as a "stitch up... you expect in a tin pot dictatorship, not the home of parliamentary democracy".
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I am disgusted. Such flagrant disregard for parliamentary rules by The Tory Party. 
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