Tory 'offered to lobby for betting investors'
Daily Record|April 06, 2023
MP is caught out in newspaper sting
ASHLEY COWBURN
Tory 'offered to lobby for betting investors'

A TORY MP allegedly offered to leak a policy document and lobby ministers on behalf of posing as journalists gambling industry investors.

Scott Benton, MP for Blackpool South since 2019, was secretly filmed by The Times in a 70-minute meeting last month.

The "investors" suggested a fee of between £2000 and £4000 for two days' work by Benton, who boasted of his "direct" access to ministers.

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