( in Britain ) the name given to events in 1996 when some Conservative Members of Parliament were accused of accepting money from business people in order to ask questions for them in Parliament . The ‘cash for questions affair’ was one of the reasons why the Conservatives lost the 1997 general election so heavily.
CASH FOR QUESTIONS
Meaning of CASH FOR QUESTIONS in English
Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary. Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь. 2005