Boris Johnson has admitted he made a “total mistake” trying to overhaul rules on MPs’ standards as he came under further pressure over his handling of sleaze.
The prime minister conceded that there was “no question [Owen Paterson] had fallen foul of the rules”, two weeks after trying to save the former Tory minister from a Commons suspension.
Johnson told the liaison committee of senior MPs that the government had only wanted to establish whether or not, “given the particularly tragic circumstances”, Paterson had a fair right to appeal.
Paterson’s wife committed suicide during the standards investigation last year.
The prime minister said: “In forming the impression that the former member for North Shropshire had not had a fair process I may well have been
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