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And exactly why did Andrew Bridgen throw away his parliamentary career? Leaving aside the obvious mistake of referring to the Holocaust - what was his motivation and main argument? What evidence is there either way?
I’m not getting into a pointless debate about vaccines, he is not representing his constituents. The Holocaust statement was unforgivable in itself, but he had had other issues as well.
He was also suspended from the House of Commons earlier in 2002 over his “careless and cavalier attitude” to lobbying rules and suggesting the woman investigating him could be bribed with a peerage.
He made multiple approaches to ministers and public officials on behalf of Mere Plantations, a UK-based reforestation company with forests in Ghana, for which he was initially paid £12,000 a year as an adviser, a report by the Standards Committee found.
It stated that Mr Bridgen then attempted to influence Standards Commissioner Kathryn Stone during her investigation by claiming he heard a “rumour” she would only receive a peerage if she ruled against him because he was an outspoken critic of then Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
(From Evening Standard, this is reported in numerous publications).
