Three former cabinet ministers are to be suspended from the parliamentary Labour party after being recorded for a documentary on political lobbying.
Stephen Byers, Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon will be suspended following reports in the Sunday Times and a Channel 4 Dispatches programme.
The three all deny any wrong-doing.
The Labour Party added that backbencher Margaret Moran, who also featured in the programme, had been suspended.
Former independent MP Martin Bell said the revelations were ''absolutely shocking''.
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