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Lord Duncan seen here before taking on work with Charlotte Street Partners IN a move which has been described as “simply wrong”, a lobbying firm has hired a sitting Tory peer as a consulting partner. The appointment of Ian Duncan (Lord Duncan of Springbank) by Charlotte Street Partners, announced last week, has come under heavy fire from industry bodies. Duncan, a former Scotland Office minister and Tory MEP for Scotland, now serves as Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords. The Assoc...

© SYSTEM A lobbying firm is under pressure to reverse its decision to hand a job to Ian Duncan while the peer remains deputy speaker in the House of Lords. Edinburgh-based Charlotte Street Partners was told it was “simply wrong” to make former Conservative minister Lord Duncan a consulting partner while he continued to serve as a legislator. Lord Duncan, who grew up in Alyth, Perthshire, is a former MEP who served as a junior minister in the UK Government’s Scotland Office, as well as in...