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  Patrick Mercer lobbying scandal grows as peers are snared
  
  Nick Clegg will push David Cameron to deliver on promise for reform
  
  More politicians were drawn into the Patrick Mercer lobbying affair last night as pressure grew
  
  on the Prime Minister to impose new controls over the lobbying industry and curb the greed
  
  of parliamentarians.
  
  The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, is expected to demand the Government honours its
  
  commitment to establish an official register of lobbyists, in the wake of allegations that Mr Mercer,
  
  a Tory MP, lobbied on behalf of Fiji after being paid thousands of pounds by undercover reporters.
  
  The demand comes as it was revealed that a second newspaper sting had resulted in two members
  
  of the Lords reporting themselves to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner after potentially
  
  compromising meetings with journalists posing as lobbyists.
  
  The revelations will fuel public anger at the apparent willingness of politicians to accept lucrative
  
  contracts from outside sources to influence issues of public interest without clearly declaring their
  
  interests nearly two decades after the "cash for questions" scandal.

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