Pat McFadden says ‘unfair’ system has meant ministers and shadow ministers face less scrutiny than backbench MPs

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Downing Street will change rules on declaring interests and hospitality so ministers have to abide by the same rules as backbench MPs, a senior minister has said.

Pat McFadden, the chancellor of the duchy of lancaster, said the move would be done to close “a Tory loophole” that gave less scrutiny and transparency to ministers’ interests than to those of other MPs.