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Former transport ministers caught up in ‘cash for favours’ scandal as NEG denies role

24 March 2010
 

Two former transport ministers have been caught up in the latest scandal to hit parliament. Both Stephen Byers and Geoff Hoon have been suspended from the parliamentary Labour Party “for bringing it into disrepute”.

The two former ministers, plus former health secretary Patricia Hewitt, are under investigation over their apparent willingness to help a lobbying firm in return for cash. All three were secretly filmed by the Channel 4 programme Dispatches, but have denied any...

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