Trade minister Conor Burns resigns over ‘veiled threats’ in letter

Conor Burns has stepped down as a trade minister after a record discovered he used his office as an MP to threaten a member of the public, the BBC reported.

The Committee on Standards announced he had violated Commons rules after hinting he could use Parliamentary right over a debt dispute concerning his father.

The committee’s report observed he had executed “veiled threats” to use prerequisite to “further his family’s interests” during the financial conflict involving his father.

Apologising to the committee in March, Mr Burns told he should not have written to the member of the public “in the terms I did,” which he did use official Commons stationery.