Boris Johnson makes U-turn over anti-sleaze regime for MPs

Commons expected to vote as soon as next week on suspending Tory Owen Paterson after PM's retreat

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MPs are expected to get another vote as soon as possible" on suspending the Conservative MP Owen Paterson from parliament, after Boris Johnson made a U-turn and ditched immediate plans to overhaul the standards system.

Following a wave of anger from within his own party and allegations of Tory sleaze, the prime minister retreated. He signalled that he would not go ahead with a new committee chaired by a Conservative MP to review the case and wider sanctions policy, given that opposition politicians had vowed to boycott it.