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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Max Jeffrey

and I'm joined by Katie Bulls and James Forsyth. Boris Johnson has written to the Common Speaker

to propose some new rules for MPs around lobbying. Katie, can you give us the details?

Yes, so today we've seen in the chamber a debate which I think the government would rather have avoided, but after Christopher Chope

objected when the House on Monday was trying to undo that botched attempt by the government

to rewrite the standards rules, You saw MPs discuss the changes

today. Now Boris Johnson has tweeted saying he's written to the common speaker to propose that

the code of conduct for MPs is updated and under his proposal, MPs who are prioritising outside

interests over their constituents are investigated and appropriately it punished. I think that's nothing new really you would expect that to happen,

even if recently it was perhaps overlooked or interpreted in a different way.

But I think the key bit here is number three,

which is MPs are banned from acting as paid political consultants or lobbyists

because that is a change and that is a change that is going to

land badly for parts of the Tory party.

James, about a quarter of Tory MPs had outside earnings.

Is this third point, the banning of lobbying or consulting, going to hit them?

So lobbying ministers was already against the rules.

That's what Owen Patson has found to have

done. And it is worth reflecting. But if the government had simply, you know, accepted that report,

hadn't tried to whip against it, I don't think that Boris Johnson would be in a position

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