The Tory MP in charge of scrutinising new energy and climate change laws has been caught boasting about how he can use his leadership of a powerful Commons committee to push his private business interests. Tim Yeo told undercover reporters — posing as representatives of a firm offering to hire him — that he was close to “really all the key players in the UK in government” and could introduce them to “almost everyone you needed to get hold of in this country”. Yeo, chairman of the energy and climate change committee, was approached by reporters claiming to represent a green energy company. He was filmed revealing that he had coached a paying client on how to influence the committee. --Robert Watts, The Sunday Telegraph, 9 June 2013
