The North West Leicestershire MP tells MPs: 'I should have been more alert to the rules.'
North West Leicestershire MP Andrew Bridgen has apologised to Parliament for breaching the MPs' code of conduct.
Mr Bridgen was suspended from the House of Commons for five days, after he was found to have shown a "careless and cavalier" attitude to the rules.He also apologised for a letter to the standards commissioner, which he said he now realised was "inappropriate".Mr Bridgen had breached rules by failing to declare his financial interests in Mere Plantations when writing to ministers about the company.
Mr Bridgen currently sits as an independent MP after being suspended from the Conservative Party in Parliament for posting a tweet that compared vaccines to the Holocaust.
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