New pledge to clean up UK politics Lobbyists in Britain will be regulated and voters will get the power to sack their MPs after the latest "cash-for-questions" scandal to hit Parliament. After disclosures by London's Telegraph about MPs and peers taking money from undercover reporters posing as lobbyists, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg pledged to bring in laws to create "cleaner, better politics." Writing in the Telegraph, Mr Clegg said the lobbying scandal had again shown that Britain's political system "has long been crying out for head-to-toe reform." His comments came as a peer, Lord Laird, resigned from the Ulster Unionist Party. Two other peers were suspended by Labour after further cash-for-questions revelations. MP Patrick Mercer has already quit the Conservative Party following an investigation by the Telegraph and BBC's Panorama that revealed he tabled parliamentary questions and motions and offered lobbyists a security pass to the House of Commons after being paid thousands of pounds. Mr Clegg said the government would now introduce laws to create a statutory register of lobbyists and give constituents the "powers of recall" to force a byelection if an MP engages in serious wrongdoing. In 2010, before he took office, British Prime Minister David Cameron identified lobbying as "the next big scandal waiting to happen" in British politics. The coalition promised to create a statutory register of lobbyists, to ensure the industry was regulated. Three years on, it has yet to do so.