Plans to cap UK MPs’ earnings from second jobs dropped
The Guardian says Plans to cap MPs’ earnings from second jobs have been dropped months after the issue provoked a sleaze scandal that plunged Boris Johnson’s government into crisis, the Guardian can reveal.
Ministers told the Commons standards committee that a time limit or ceiling on such earnings would be “impractical”.
The prime minister pledged last year to clamp down on MPs’ second jobs after the Owen Paterson lobbying scandal and a furore over Geoffrey Cox being paid nearly £6m as a lawyer since joining parliament, voting by proxy on days he was undertaking paid work.
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