Labour's plan to ban MPs' side hustles will not help as second jobs help prevent 'plotting and scheming', argues one senior Conservative
Labour's plan to ban MPs' side hustles will not help as second jobs help prevent 'plotting and scheming', argues one senior Conservative
The two exceptions were Matt Hancock – who used to be a Conservative MP and minister – and Labour’s shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy, whose main income source was his LBC radio show, which he has since stopped doing. Most of Theresa May’s £665,000 income, for which she worked 311 hours, comes from speeches she has done as a former prime minister, plus periodic advances and income from her recent bookMr Hancock comes third among top earners, with an income of £418,000 over 852 hours, with the main chunk of this in the year to September 2023 coming from his stint onFar down at 14th on the list is Mr Lammy, the highest-earning Labour MP, who brought in £103,000 over this period, most of which...
“If you cut out second employment, you end up with the worst kind of MP – career politicians – and nobody wants that,” one senior Tory backbencher toldHe argued that second jobs also helped to keep down the drama in politics, adding: “In the old days, most MPs had other jobs, so they couldn’t spend their time plotting and scheming because they had to think about their second job until they turned up in Parliament.
But all this was given short shrift by Richard Burgon, the Labour MP behind an unsuccessful attempt to ban MPs second jobs through a private members’ bill in 2022.“It’s simply ludicrous to hear MPs claiming that trousering vast sums for a few hours work is about giving MPs real-world experience,” he said. “It makes them even more out of touch and these second jobs are short-changing the public and disrespecting our democracy.
She added that, although many people “despair at the quality of MPs”, there were still many good-quality candidates keen to enter the Commons.
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