cash for questions
/ˌkæʃ fə ˈkwestʃənz/
/ˌkæʃ fər ˈkwestʃənz/
- (in the UK) 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 were so badly defeated in the 1997 general election.
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