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Owen Paterson resigns as MP to leave 'cruel world of politics' following ethics row

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Owen Paterson has announced he is leaving "the cruel world of politics" as he resigned as MP for North Shropshire. It comes after the Tory MP was embroiled in a row over ethics standards after he was found to have breached lobbying rules.

Boris Johnson’s government was accused of “corruption” after protecting the former minister from an immediate suspension during a vote in the Commons on Wednesday night.

Tories were ordered not to back the cross-party Standards Committee’s call for Mr Paterson to be suspended from Parliament for 30 sitting days after it found he repeatedly lobbied ministers and officials for two companies paying him more than £100,000 per year.

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