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Cash for access' scandal: Sir Malcolm Rifkind says 'unrealistic' for MPs to live on £67,000 salary

The Tory MP has denied any wrongdoing meeting with fake Chinese firm.

Sir Malcolm Rifkind has defended his alleged offer to use his influence to help a private company by saying it is “unrealistic” to expect some MPs to live on their £67,000 basic salary.

The former Conservative Foreign Secretary has denied any wrongdoing after being filmed meeting undercover reporters from the Daily Telegraph and Channel 4’s Dispatches posing as a fictitious Hong Kong-based communications agency called PMR.

Sir Malcolm was yesterday suspended from the Conservative Party following a meeting with Michael Gove.

'Cash for access' scandal: Sir Malcolm Rifkind says 'unrealistic' for MPs to live on £67,000 salary - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
Also, too, Jack Straw. Who hasn't resigned from the Labour party unlike Rifkind who resigned from the Conservative party.