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Will the row over MPs’ second jobs hurt Boris Johnson?

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

The New Statesman

News & Politics, Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Geoffrey Cox is the latest MP to come under fire over his extra earnings for legal work outside of his parliamentary duties.  

 

It follows the resignation of MP Owen Paterson after he was found to have breached lobbying rules, as well as criticism over the way the government awarded Covid-related contracts.  

 

Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian discuss the ethics of MPs’ side-gigs and why the row is such a headache for Boris Johnson

  

Then in You Ask Us, a listener asks whether it would be workable or desirable to tie MP salaries to the median national income. 


If you have a question for You Ask Us, email [email protected]



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0:00.0

Some people worry that being a Royal Navy Reserveist won't fit into their everyday life.

0:05.7

True, you might have to miss your brother-in-law's open mic tonight,

0:10.5

and the odd repeat of celebrity cash under the hammer.

0:16.6

But when you're in a rip doing 38 knots on a crisp winter's morning,

0:21.4

we're pretty sure you'll get over it.

0:23.5

Royal Navy Reserves, they'll do the every day, every day.

0:28.7

Such Royal Navy Reserves.

0:36.8

Hi, I'm Anouche.

0:37.8

I'm Stephen.

0:39.0

And on today's New Statesman podcast, we discuss the unfolding sleaze scandal,

0:43.4

and you ask us, how do we fix it?

0:45.8

So we're in the midst of what seems to be unfolding as an all-around Westminster sleaze scandal.

1:02.4

Jeffrey Cox, the former attorney general at the moment,

1:05.0

is the one getting the most heat for his legal work outside of Parliament.

1:10.0

Stephen, you've kind of been looking into how these kind of accusations

1:15.8

well, how they'll affect Boris Johnson's leadership,

1:18.0

but also what they say about him and his relationship with his MPs as well.

1:22.4

What have you heard?

1:23.4

So several conservative MPs, what's happened to me in observation?

1:26.3

Well, a tweet by my New's Knight's policy editor, Lewis Goodall.

1:29.2

He said, for context, we're 25% of the way through,

1:32.5

oh, in Paterson's 30-day suspension.

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