They will consider the matter closed by Tuesday.
The matter of the Lebedev peerage will be closed by Monday.
How many sitting Tory MPs are there that were formerly ministers?
I found this list in the comments of the UK Politics reddit. The names in red aren’t in their 50s:
Since the person is in his 50s
Chris Skidmore39
George Freeman 53
Geoffrey Cox60
Julian Smith48
Sajid Javid 50 (god please no)Jeremy Hunt 53
David Lidington
Philip Hammond
Damian Hinds 50
Liam Fox 58
David Gauke
Greg Clark 52
Chris Grayling 58
David Mundell 58
Rory Stewart
Jeremy Wright47
Brandon Lewis49
Mel Stride 58
James Brokenshire 52level 2
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Brokenshire is still a Minister
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Mundell is gay so it’s probably not him
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I’m going to go with Liam Fox.
I’ve heard of the name and I’ve an idea in my head that he’s supposed to be a cunt even by Tory standards. It could be Javid. Some fairly famous names on that list.
He hasn’t been suspended by the party is the latest news. I wonder if that will turn into another scandal.
I didn’t know he was a minister
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He’s a white van driver from Waterford.
Can’t be ruled out on that count, just ask his fellow tory Ian Dale
He’s a left footer. I’d have LOVED it if it was that odious little prick though.
Son of Irish immigrants to Scotland who joins the Tories. 
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He’s an uucoam
The Gover quietly sharpening his knives in the background here
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Not that quietly either I reckon.
Seriously though, I suppose they’d rather have her outside the camp, and there’s a bit of damned if you do and damned if you don’t, but the optics of this will stir up further anti English sentiment.
A lot of brave patriots being told to fuck off by Churchill’s grandson 
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I think they’re baiting the Tories there
It will get pwopa nawty