London. An undercover report on Sunday accused two British former foreign ministers of offering to use their positions to help a private company in exchange for payment.
The allegations against senior Conservative party lawmaker Malcolm Rifkind and top Labor party MP Jack Straw come just months before a general election and echo “cash for access” scandals that caused political uproar in the past.
Rifkind and Straw are the most prominent figures to have faced such accusations, and Straw suspended himself from the Labor party following the publication of the report.
In an undercover investigation by newspaper the Daily Telegraph and TV program Channel …read more
Source: The Jakarta Globe
