Ministers should be banned from lobbying for up to five years after leaving office and face possible fines if they break the rules, the anti-corruption watchdog will say this week.
Lord Evans, chairman of the committee on standards in public life, will make the proposal in an emergency review being published tomorrow in the wake of the Greensill scandal.
The intervention by Evans, 63, the former head of MI5, is a response to “sustained public scrutiny” of the rules governing current and former prime ministers and other office-holders. His report will demand an overhaul of the rules in an attempt to stop former ministers using their contacts and expertise for private gain.
It will single out David Cameron, the former prime minister under whom Evans
