UK lawmaker should be suspended over 'egregious' paid lobbying - watchdog

FILE PHOTO: Owen Paterson is pictured outside the Cabinet Office in London, Britain, February 4, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah Mckay/File Photo

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.