The parliamentary standards commissioner’s inquiry into Nadine Dorries’s appearance on I’m a Celebrity Get Me out of Here was evidently an eventful process. Here are the headlines from the report:
1). The standards committee, the cross-party panel of MPs which sanctions MPs after the standards commissioner has reported, ordered Dorries to apologise to the House of Commons for failing to declare earnings from the show. However, the commissioner said that Dorries’s failure to register her shareholding interest in a media consultancy company called Averbrook until June 2013 was an ‘inadvertent’ oversight.
2). Dorries said that she had to undertake media work because she was facing bankruptcy. She wrote to the commissioner, ‘As a single parent with financial responsibilities for a disabled ex husband, an elderly mother and a child in full time education, I faced the possibility of bankruptcy or finding a way to pay the bill.
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