Prime minister tells Commons liaison committee he fully accepted ex-Tory MP had broken lobbying rules
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Boris Johnson has said it was “a total mistake” to try to defend Owen Paterson from punishment for repeatedly breaking lobbying rules, adding that he fully accepted that what his former Conservative colleague had done was wrong.
In a sometimes uncomfortable appearance before the Commons liaison committee, Johnson said his brief attempt unilaterally to replace the existing disciplinary system for MPs with a new, Tory-majority committee, had happened after unnamed “colleagues” told him it would have cross-party support.
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