Symbol copyright PA Image caption The keep in mind petition that Ian Paisley is facing is the first in UK parliamentary history
Mr Paisley went on 3 luxurious holidays to Sri Lanka in 2013 at the expense of the country’s government.
The next year he wrote to the top minister to lobby in opposition to helping a UN answer on Sri Lanka approximately alleged human rights abuses within the country.
A Westminster standards committee discovered that Mr Paisley had breached the rule of thumb in opposition to paid advocacy by way of failing to claim his trips.
It additionally concluded that the price of the vacations was “much upper” than the £50,000 that Mr Paisley estimated.
He was suspended from the Commons for 30 sitting days – it is one in all the longest bans ever to be handed down at Westminster.
Mr Paisley has insisted he will struggle a through-election to save lots of his Commons seat if voters force him to stand down.
On Monday, he apologised to a few DUP supporters at a gathering in North Antrim.
The DUP councillor John Finlay, who organised the assembly, mentioned folks who attended it have been “very courteous and supportive to him”.
