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Podcast: Talk TV Radio
Episode: Lobbying Scandal
Description: A Conservative MP has been suspended after he was filmed offering to lobby ministers on behalf of gambling investors in return for money. Scott Benton, MP for Blackpool South, was stripped of the party whip after an undercover investigation for The Times found he was prepared to leak market sensitive information to a bogus investment fund and ask parliamentary questions on its behalf, in breach of parliamentary rules.