Tory Sleaze

"Laurence Robertson, the Tory MP for Tewkesbury has reportedly used questions in Parliament to warn ministers not to introduce tough new laws on gambling, while being paid paid £200 an hour by the betting industry.

Mr Robertson is paid £24,000 a year by the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), an industry body that lobbies on behalf of bookmakers."
 
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"Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith is facing questions over his £25,000-a-year second job advising a multimillion-pound hand sanitiser company after he chaired a Government taskforce that recommended new rules benefiting the firm.

The MP for Chingford and Woodford Green chaired the Task Force on Innovation, Growth, and Regulatory Reform, which reported back in May. However, recent sleaze allegations has prompted questions about the taskforce’s recommendations that alcohol-free hand sanitisers should be formally recognised as suitable for use in the UK.

The report made no reference to Sir Iain’s relationship with Byotrol, for which he is paid £25,000 a year as an adviser. Byotrol provides the NHS with 92 per cent of its non-alcohol sanitiser.


Sir Iain was also a director of Byotrol between June 2009 and May 2010 and has previously declared share options in the firm."
 
"Richard Fuller, the Tory MP for North East Bedfordshire, has faced questions after it emerged he received £300,000 from a firm that invests in spy technology in China.

Mr Fuller has four jobs outside of his Parliamentary duties, including an advisory director role for Investcorp, The Mirror first reported.

Investcorp helped bankroll a firm which worked for the Chinese Government on surveillance systems capable of tracking oppressed Uyghur Muslims.

At the same time, Mr Fuller sat on a Parliamentary committee which examined treatment of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang and recommended fines for UK firms using supply chains linked to the province."
 
"Steve Brine, the Tory MP for Winchester & Chandler’s Ford took part in a video conference between a company he was paid to advise and the Vaccines Minister months before the business won a £100,000 Government contract.

Mr Brine, a former health minister, is paid £20,000 a year for up to eight hours’ work a month for Sigma Pharmaceuticals as a “strategic adviser”.

The MP and Sigma took part in a video meeting in February with Nadhim Zahawi, who was then the Vaccines Minister. Its declared purpose was to discuss “BAME [Black, Asian and minority ethnic] challenges to vaccine rollout”, according to Government documents.

Sigma won a £100,000 contract to deliver lateral flow devices to pharmacies in April, in a deal that was directly awarded without competition because of its size."
 
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"Daniel Kawczynski, the Conservative MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham has been paid more than £250,000 to advise an international mining company while simultaneously serving as the Prime Minister’s trade envoy to a country that produces gold, copper and coal.

Mr Kawczynski is paid £36,000 a year by the Electrum Group, a New York-based mining company, and has earned £258,000 from the firm since joining in 2018.

He is also the UK’s trade envoy to Mongolia, and has attempted to set up meetings with representatives of the Mongolian mining industry, according to the Daily Mail."
 
"Jacob Rees-Mogg may have broken Parliamentary rules by failing to disclose £6m in loans he took out from his Cayman Islands-linked company.

The leader of the House of Commons took out £2.94m of “director’s loans” every year between 2018 and 2020 from his UK-based company Saliston Ltd, according to The Mail on Sunday.

Mr Rees-Mogg said in the MPs’ register of interests that he was an “unremunerated director” and shareholder of Saliston, but did not mention the loans. The director’s loans are a taxable benefit and allowed the Cabinet minister to borrow at very low interest rates."
 
JohnD said:
"Jacob Rees-Mogg may have broken Parliamentary rules by failing to disclose £6m in loans he took out from his Cayman Islands-linked company.

The leader of the House of Commons took out £2.94m of “director’s loans” every year between 2018 and 2020 ...."
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On an entirely unconnected issue, you may recall that people who took out company loans, instead of declaring the money as taxable salary, have been pursued for tax dodging, and some of them driven into bankruptcy. They're called "Disguised remuneration tax avoidance schemes" and are now taxed.
 
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