Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski has been paid more than £250,000 to advise an international mining company – while simultaneously serving as Boris Johnson’s trade envoy to a country that produces gold, copper and coal thetimes.co.uk/article/daniel…
Kawczynski, the MP for Shrewsbury & Atcham, is the UK’s trade envoy to Mongolia
At the same time, he is paid £36,000 a year by the Electrum Group, a New York-based mining company
He has worked for the company since 2018
At the same time, he is paid £36,000 a year by the Electrum Group, a New York-based mining company
He has worked for the company since 2018
The MP has attempted to set up meetings with representatives of the Mongolian mining industry and has held talks with the country’s ministers
Kawczynski is also being investigated by the parliamentary standards watchdog for the second time in five months – and could face a ban from the House of Commons – after he admitted making an insincere apology in the Commons to avoid being suspended thetimes.co.uk/article/daniel…
It come after the parliamentary commissioner for standards found that Kawczynski acted in a “threatening and intimidating” manner towards select committee staff and abused his power as an MP
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