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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics podcast.

I'm Cindy You and I'm joined by James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman.

So Isabel, there are quite a few things happening in the House of Commons today and most of them are surrounding the second job slash Tory sleeve scandal that is in a maybe second or third week of running now.

Unfortunately, still being talked about thanks to Labour.

So tell us what's going on and why the government is on the back foot today.

Well, it's interesting you say thanks to Labour because I think actually it's more thanks to Boris Johnson managing to dig a deeper and deeper hole every time he thinks he's closing this issue off. So obviously we've had a slew of stories, starting

with Owen Patterson's case and then moving out very quickly to MP's second jobs and the

appropriateness or otherwise of these outside earnings. And this

week, Labour was basically trying to, I think, keep the flame burning on this because the

weekend papers didn't bring new particularly damaging allegations. There were a few smaller stories.

But Labor had an opposition day debate planned

for today where they would be calling for an end to most second jobs. Yesterday, Kirstarmer was

outlining his proposals on this. In the middle of the press conference that he was giving,

Boris Johnson released a letter to the Speaker

with his proposals for ending the sort of second jobs that he felt were not benefiting voters.

Now, the problem with this was that the proposals were so vague that they could have meant

nothing or anything. And so there's been a round of confusing broadcast interviews given by the International Trade Secretary Anne Marie Trevelyan, who was musing on various different outlets that maybe 20 hours a week would be appropriate for an MP to do an extra job, which is, you know, like two days, or maybe just eight hours.

And it just underlined that Boris Johnson hadn't thought these proposals through,

which has really upset Conservative MPs on both sides of this divide, because on the one side,

you've got the MPs who are about to take a massive drop in their income, because they think

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