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Should MPs have second jobs?
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:13:46
Publish Date: 2021-11-09 11:49:00
Description:
The Owen Paterson affair has shined a light on the extra paycheques that MPs earn on top of their £80,000 tax-funded salary. In particular Geoffrey Cox, whose outside legal work is reported to bring him in six figures on a regular basis. But is there an argument to be made for allowing elected officials to receive a second income?

Max Jeffery is joined by Katy Balls and James Forsyth to ponder this very question.

'On principle, I think MPs continuing to earn money from their former professions or former trades is acceptable. They're not trading on the fact that they are an MP.' - James Forsyth 

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