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A SENIOR Tory peer has been forced to apologise to the House of Lords after signing a contract agreeing to lobby MPs and peers on behalf of the Cayman Islands tax haven.
Baron Blencathra was ordered to make the apology after Lords Commissioner for Standards Paul Kernaghan found he had breached the code of conduct for members.
The Lords sub-committee on peers’ conduct agreed Lord Blencathra’s conduct had breached the code.
He escaped more serious sanction after the sub-committee accepted he had made clear that he was not prepared to lobby Parliament when he took on his consultancy role with the Cayman Islands, in spite of the ‘‘ostensible commitments’’ in the contract.
