The so-called Tori Slee scandal over MPs' second jobs entered its second week,

with Boris Johnson being forced to insist that the UK is still a robust democracy.

I genuinely believe that the UK is not remotely a corrupt country.

I know I believe that our institutions are corrupt and I think it's very very important to say that.

Welcome to Payne's Politics,

your essential insider guide to what's happening in British politics from the Financial Times,

with me Sebastian Payne.

In this episode we'll be examining this big row about outside interest for British MPs,

which you heard Boris Johnson refer to at the top.

Is it acceptable still to be earning hundreds of thousands of pounds a year on top of Parliamentary work,

and do voters care?

Chief political commentator Robert Strimsley will analyse along with political correspondent Laura Hughes.

And later we'll be looking at the very odd case of the 92 hereditary peers in the House of Lords,

the last festivities of aristocracy in our politics.

How do they still exist, and will their time ever come to an end?

Political editor George Parker will take us into this slightly mad and wonderful world,

along with special guest Dr Catherine Haddon from the Institute for Government Think Tank.

While with much discuss we're going to go straight into our main topic.

First Owen Paterson, now Sir Geoffrey Cox.

The troubling headlines around the conduct of some conservative MPs continued.

There's been much focus on the former Attorney General,

who earned almost a million pounds from legal work last year,

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