New rules to protect UK politics from “chilling risks” posed by hostile states and foreign influence should be implemented, MPs have been told.
A series of robust proposals put forward by the Commons Standards Committee said an outright ban should be placed on foreign government secretariats and annual reports on income and spending should be published.
The measures also include a bar on MPs sitting as officers on more than six All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs).
Tougher rules on the governance of groups receiving more than £1,500 a year in outside benefits would also be introduced, if given the go-ahead by Parliament.
The recommendations have been set out in a newly released Standards Committee report (pdf), which has warned that APPGs “could represent the next great parliamentary scandal.”…