BORIS JOHNSON’S authority has been damaged by the Owen Paterson sleaze storm, senior Tories warned today, as backbench MPs vented their “fury” at being ordered to vote to block his suspension from the Commons.
Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg and chief whip Mark Spencer were also under fire over the fiasco. Tory MPs were ordered on Wednesday to vote to tear up the Commons disciplinary system to stop Mr Paterson from being suspended for 30 days and to bring in an appeal mechanism.
He had been found by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Kathryn Stone, to have repeatedly lobbied ministers and officials for two companies — medical firm Randox and meat processor Lynn’s Country Foods — which paid him more than £100,000 a year.
But hit with an angry backlash, the Government performed a spectacular U-turn yesterday and ditched its proposed reforms, which did not have cross-party support.
Former Commons Leader Sir David Lidington told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “If you ask your troops to march through the lobby on something like this, and which they don’t think is right, and then you U-turn on it, it’s going to be more difficult next time around.”
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