Standards commissioner finds Iain McNicol broke Lords code of conduct by ‘providing a parliamentary service in return for payment’
A Labour peer and trade envoy for Keir Starmer has apologised for breaking the House of Lords code of conduct by writing to the Treasury to promote a cryptocurrency firm that was paying him.
Iain McNicol, a former general secretary of the Labour party, was found to have breached the rules by offering a paid parliamentary service on behalf of Astra Protocol in June 2023.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/14/iain-mcnicol-labour-peer-apologises-for-writing-to-treasury-to-promote-crypto-firm-he-advised
Author : Rowena Mason Whitehall editor
Publish date : 2025-05-14 13:37:00
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