MPs could be barred from consultancy roles in sleaze clampdown
The Guardian says MPs could be banned from having consultancy jobs like Owen Paterson’s under plans for a clampdown on sleaze being considered by the Commons standards committee.
The prospect of tightened restrictions on MPs’ second jobs is to be decided within weeks and could affect more than 30 parliamentarians earning between £180,000 and hundreds of pounds a year on top of their £82,000 salary.
It emerged ahead of an emergency debate on MPs’ standards and sleaze on Monday and amid ongoing fury over government attempts to protect Paterson and other lobbyist MPs. On Sunday a minister provoked a backlash from fellow Conservatives by dismissing the row as a “Westminster storm in a teacup”.
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