cash for questions

cash for questions
(in Britain) the name given to events in 1996 when some Conservative Members of Parliament were accused of accepting money from business people in order to ask questions for them in Parliament. The ‘cash for questions affair’ was one of the reasons why the Conservatives lost the 1997 general election so heavily.

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