Robin Walker is the parliamentary under secretary of state for Exiting the European Union and a former PR and lobbyist at heavyweight firm Finsbury.
Walker was first elected in the May 2010 general election as the British Conservative Party MP for Worcester.  Walker's father Peter Walker was also Worcester MP between 1961 and 1992 and a member of the Margaret Thatcher's cabinet.
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In October 2011 a joint investigation by The Times and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism discovered that Robin Walker continues to receive £2500 a month form Finsbury where he continues to work. Finsbury represent alcohol industry clients Carlsberg and Mitchells and Butlers. As an MP Walker was lobbying the chancellor George Osborne to ask for a reduction on the duty paid on pints of beer.  Walker denies any impropriety he claimed to have been asking the question as part of his work supporting pubs through the All-Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group and denied working on the Carlsberg or Mitchells and Butlers. Finsbury agreed with his account.
Walker defended his behaviour to the Worcester News, "I never dealt with anyone in the brewery side or the financial side. As soon as I became an MP I went to the parliamentary standards people and asked them 'should I put forward Finsbury's whole client list?"..."They were very clear it should only be the companies I dealt with directly." He went on to claim that with respect to amendments to the bill on capping the cost of unsecured loans that he said "If we amended the wording, it was the only way to get it through" and he said it was "crazy" to suggest this was connected to Wonga's contract with Finsbury.
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