Ex-army chief Lord Dannatt lobbied ministers for millions to support commercial deal
by Henry Dyer and Rob Evans from World news | The Guardian on (#6Y4SC)
Revelation marks second time crossbench peer may have broken Lords rules against lobbying
A member of the House of Lords lobbied the government to get financial support worth millions of pounds for a commercial deal he was steering, documents reveal.
It is the second time that Richard Dannatt, a former head of the British army, has potentially broken parliamentary rules that forbid lobbying.
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