LONDON (Reuters) - A British lawmaker and former senior minister faces being suspended from parliament for 30 days after parliament's standards committee found him guilty of a serious breach of rules on paid advocacy.
The Committee on Standards said Owen Paterson, a member of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservatives, repeatedly used his position to promote two companies, who together paid him nearly three times his annual parliamentary salary.
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