Four Labour MPs concerned in money for change liaison

By Rebecca Lefort 948AM GMT twenty-one March 2010

Geoff Hoon, Patricia Hewitt, Stephen Byers and Margaret Moran are all station down at the subsequent choosing

MPs Stephen Byers, Patricia Hewitt, Geoff Hoon and Margaret Moran who are all station down at the subsequent choosing were personally available deliberating monetary remuneration with an expose contributor posing as a association senior manager seeking to sinecure MPs for lobbying work.

Mr Byers, the former traffic and ride secretary, is purported to have described himself as "like a sort of cab for hire" for up to �5,000 a day, echoing Mohamed al-Fayed"s explanation sixteen years ago that you can "hire an MP the approach you sinecure a London taxi."

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The Dispatches and Sunday Times review additionally alleges that

Miss Hewitt, a former health secretary, claimed she was paid �3,000 a day to assistance a customer acquire a key chair on a Government advisory group.

Mr Hoon, the former counterclaim secretary, charity to lead delegations to ministers and pronounced he was seeking to spin his believe and contacts in to "something that honestly creates money", and combined he charged �3,000 a day.

Miss Moran, the ashamed Luton MP who was forced to compensate behind �22,500 in expenses, boasted she could write a "girls gang" of colleagues to assistance clients, together with Jacqui Smith, the former home secretary, Hazel Blears, the former communities secretary, and Harriet Harman, the emissary personality of the Labour party.

The contributor approached thirteen Labour MPs and 7 Conservatives in total.

Mr Byers allegedly pronounced he had brokered a tip understanding with Lord Adonis, the stream ride secretary, on interest of National Express, that he pronounced was seeking to desert the loss-making East Coast rail authorization but incurring monetary penalties.

According to the review Mr Byers pronounced "We concluded with Andrew (Adonis) … he would be publicly really vicious of National Express" as prolonged as conditions that lucky the association were agreed.

Mr Byers additionally claimed clients would good from the "trump card" of his loyalty with Lord Mandelson, the commercial operation secretary.

It is purported he once telephoned Lord Mandelson to put a stop to "massively bureaucratic" food labelling regulations after he was contacted by Tesco. Tesco has denied the claim.

After the allegations emerged Mr Byers released a matter observant he had "exaggerated" his claims, and that he had retracted them the day after the assembly in an email.

Lord Adonis and National Express have additionally denied the accusations. Lord Mandelson pronounced he had "no recollection" of articulate to Mr Byers about the issue.

Miss Hewitt pronounced she was charity to do the work usually after she left the Commons. "I am regularly peaceful to give recommendation to companies who have something certain to suggest the country," she said.

A counsel for Mr Hoon pronounced his comments had been misrepresented.

Miss Moran pronounced "The assembly concerned suppositious discussions about the destiny I wasn"t seeking for a pursuit ... This assembly was the commencement of an try to reconstruct my life."