A cabinet minister has questioned the future of parliament's sleaze investigator after her recommendation of a 30-day suspension for a Conservative MP was blocked by the prime minister and his Tory colleagues
Pressed on whether he was calling for Ms Stone to resign, the business secretary added:"It's up to her to do that, it's up to anyone where they've made a judgement and people have sought to change that to consider their position, that's a natural thing.Ms Stone's term as commissioner is due to finish in December next year. After Wednesday's Commons vote, her office said she would serve her full term.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that"protecting the MP found guilty of a standards breach and now trying to hound the independent investigator out of office" was"classic corruption". Meanwhile, Lord Evans, the chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said the Conservative effort to overhaul parliament's disciplinary system was"deeply at odds with the best traditions of British democracy".
"It's not about the rights and wrongs of what Owen Paterson said or did or how he was paid," he said.
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