Tory MP Owen Paterson, who was found to have breached lobbying rules, has escaped a Commons suspension after his colleagues voted to overhaul the system which recommended it.
In an unprecedented move, a majority of MPs chose not to back the cross-party Standards Committee's call for a 30-day ban from Parliament after it was ruled that he repeatedly lobbied ministers and officials for two companies paying him more than £100,000 per year.
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