Should ex-MPs stop shilling for foreign rulers?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In his Telegraph column, Fraser Nelson makes the case that it's time to ban former politicians accepting jobs from foreign rulers. The likes of Tony Blair, George Osborne and David Cameron have all made money from government's abroad. But is this becoming more of a problem? And are their critics simply a product of their success? Natasha Feroze speaks to Fraser Nelson and James Heale.

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0:19.2	Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots,
0:20.9	The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.
0:23.6	I'm Natasha Fros and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James Heel.
0:27.6	In the Telegraph's paper today, Fraser Nelson, our editor, has written that it's time to stop ex-MP's shilling for foreign rulers.
0:36.4	Fraser, this has been going on forever.
0:39.0	What's the big deal?
0:40.0	Well, the big deal is that it's happening rather intensely at the moment.
0:45.0	The phenomenon I'm looking about is that of George Osborne.
0:47.8	We gather he's advising the Emirates on how to buy the spectator. The spectator is subject to a bid by Redbird IMI, which is one of these
0:56.4	soccer puppet organizations from the Emirati government, and it was quite something to see
1:02.1	a former chancellor basically act on behalf of a foreign government.
1:06.0	Now when you look into this you find out that they have been hovering up what MPs they can, David Cameron,
1:11.3	was out there giving speeches at 115,000 pounds of shots for these speeches.
1:16.7	He was giving lecturing bizarrely at a university in Abba Dabbe.
1:21.4	You can bet he was paid more than the average lecturer for that.
1:24.7	And this, I would argue, creates a conflict of interest.
1:28.1	Because right now, most Conservative ministers will be thinking about the next election.
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