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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Political correspondent

FOUND: No formal sanction for tory mp who broke rules on declaring interests - You Need To See This

David Warburton
David Warburton had the Tory whip suspended earlier this year over separate claims of sexual harassment and drug use, which he denies. Photograph: PjrNews/Alamy

A Conservative MP has not been formally disciplined despite breaching rules on declaring interests after being lent £150,000 by a businessman for a rental property and then writing to a financial watchdog to praise the same person.

An investigation by the parliamentary commissioner for standards, Kathryn Stone, concluded that David Warburton, the MP for Somerton and Frome in Somerset, broke the MPs’ code of conduct twice.

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