Tory peer Lord Chadlington is to quit the Conservatives and retire from the House of Lords following a recommendation he be suspended from Parliament for a year. It comes after an investigation found he breached the Lords code of conduct over his role in assisting a subsidiary of a company he chaired to secure contracts to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) during the pandemic. Although the peer had initially been cleared in two previous investigations, a third probe was opened due to new information coming to light. The former adviser to John Major said "any errors that I did make were honest," and he "wholly rejected" the findings of the commissioner. The investigation, by the Lords standards commissioner Martin Jelley, followed a complaint that Lord Chadlington had referred a supplier, SG Recruitment Ltd (SGRL), to the government's 'High Priority Lane' for PPE contracts in 2020.…