“They are philanthropists who give large sums to charity, who have been very successful in business and therefore should be considered on those grounds for the Lord,” he told the BBC.Įustice also described the anger over Conservative politician Owen Paterson, who left parliament after the government’s U-turn on plans to overhaul the system to combat parliamentary corruption, as a “storm in a teacup”. George Eustice, Minister of Environmental Affairs, rejected the accusations. “Once you pay your £ 3 million, you get your peerage.”īoris Johnson’s Conservative Party is corrupt, dull, sly and on the move. “Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party is corrupt, unclear, cunning and running,” Labor Party deputy leader Angela Rayner wrote on Twitter. The role of conservative treasurer has become the most refined job in the UK, the newspaper said, in front of leaders of the country’s institutions and charities and even former prime ministers.

The Sunday Times reported that all but one of the 16 conservative treasurers had donated more than £ 3 million ($ 4.05 million) to the party over the past two decades and were then offered a seat in the House of Lords. The government was embroiled in a corruption scramble last week, with Johnson forced to abandon plans pushed through parliament to protect one of his MPs who was found to have broken lobbying rules. The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government has rejected new allegations of corruption after a newspaper investigation found that large donors had been offered seats to his Conservative Party seats in the upper chamber of parliament.

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