Is the ‘sleaze crisis’ a turning point for Boris Johnson? Owen Paterson resigns after PM’s U-turn in sleaze row Matt Hancock, sleaze and public perceptions: what political standards survey ...

House of Commons Owen Paterson sat in the Commons to listen ... to him and they both agreed it would be better for him now to resign. The pressure of the investigation, I am told, made it likely ...

On Wednesday, No 10 backed a shake-up of the standards watchdog and blocked the suspension of one of its own former ministers, Owen Paterson. This sparked an angry reaction from Labour and some ...