Sentences with phrase «lobbying scandal»

Yeo is the latest casualty in a flurry of lobbying scandals which began nine days ago, when Conservative MP Patrick Mercer resigned the party whip over allegations he had accepted money to lobby for the government of Fiji.
Parliament has been plagued by lobbying scandals over the last two decades, and the response is depressingly predictable; a long investigation followed by a half - hearted attempt to introduce new rules to regulate lobbying.
The suspensions come as British politics reels from a series of lobbying scandals which bring back memories of the sleaze era under John Major.
His radical practice comes after irate voters in November tossed out longtime incumbents implicated in lobbying scandals and as public interest groups clamor for more transparency in the way Congress does business.
Let's not pretend the Liam Fox lobbying scandal is an isolated aberration.
Lobbying reform groups have reacted with outrage at the government's decision to tack on an attack on Labour's funding to its response to the ongoing lobbying scandal.
Liam Fox's resignation and other lobbying scandals have still not resulted in a statutory register, but the public affairs industry still faces more regulation under the coalition's plans.
Henning compares the sentence to those in recent lobbying scandals:
The government had been accused of delaying a bill on lobbying and then in the wake of a recent rash of lobbying scandals, involving MPs falling for stings by journalists posing as lobbyists, the government hardened its stance.
The government will use the lobbying scandal to clampdown on the trade unions which fund the Labour party.
Kneejerk responses to the lobbying scandal and terrorism in Woolwich are inherently weak.
We shouldn't rush to judgement over the Patrick Mercer's lobbying scandal.
Jonathan Clarke took issue with Gavin Devine's blog Cameron's Is A Lobbying Scandal Without Lobbyists.
«Moreover, this bill would have done nothing to prevent the recent string of «lobbying scandals» (which are in fact nothing of the sort) to which it is a reflexive response.»
The other, Patrick Mercer, resigned after a lobbying scandal.
Peers such as Lord Taylor, Baroness Uddin and Lord Laird who have been temporarily suspended for expenses fraud, lobbying scandals and other misconduct can all be seen gracing the red benches.
PRINCETON, NJ — Since the lobbying scandals surrounding Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff emerged last year, the Republican and Democratic caucuses have been jockeying for the higher moral ground and promoting their separate anti-corruption bills.
«This liberal nonprofit group's time would be better spent investigating John Faso's lobbying scandals,» she said in an email, «unless of course he's behind these attacks?
The government's anti-sleaze bill, hastily announced in the wake of the lobbying scandals just over a month ago, which will already contain clauses on trade union election funding, is a potential candidate.
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