Efforts to undermine parliament’s independent regulator, Kathryn Stone, follow her repeated enquiries over Johnson finances
, parliament’s sleaze watchdog, Thursday began bleakly. The business secretary called for her to consider her position. After parliament voted to overturn her investigation into Owen Paterson’s lobbying breaches, it was “difficult to see what the future of the commissioner was”,But then within a few frantic hours Stone, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, appeared safe.
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