Hostile foreign states pose ‘real risk’ of influencing MPs groups

Standards committee calls for AAPGs reforms to avert ‘next great parliamentary scandal’Hostile foreign states and others pose a “real risk” of gaining access and wielding influence through all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs), the Commons standards committee has warned.Calling for reforms to avert what it described as the “next great parliamentary scandal”, the standards committee also voiced concerns that a dramatic rise in the number of the informal cross-