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Update re: Boris SLEAZE:He Rambles-Compares Himself to Moses & Praises Peppa Pig in Bizarre

Boris SLEAZE: Johnson to Face Questions Over MPs' Second Jobs Row

Boris Johnson will face questions from across Parliament later, as a row about MPs' second jobs continues to engulf Westminster.

BBC News 17 NOV 2021






The PM announced plans on Tuesday to stop MPs working as political consultants, ahead of a Commons debate later.




Owen Paterson, who has resigned as an MP, denies breaking Commons lobbying rules


Labour wants to ban all second jobs, apart from "public service" roles or professions requiring registration.

The row comes after ex-Tory MP Owen Paterson broke Commons lobbying rules.

MPs will vote later on whether to back the government's or Labour's blueprint for resolving the increasingly fraught debate over outside roles.

Before that, Mr Johnson will face MPs during Prime Minister's Questions at 12:00 GMT, and appear before a committee of senior MPs at 15:00.

In his surprise announcement on Tuesday, Mr Johnson said MPs should no longer be able to hold jobs advising firms on how Parliament works.

He also proposed a new rule that any outside role, paid or unpaid, should be "within reasonable limits" and not stop MPs fully serving their constituents.

This is yet to be defined, but International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan has suggested 15 hours a week as a reasonable limit.

Speaking on BBC Breakfast, she added there was a "common sense test there that we all understand" on what was appropriate.

Labour has welcomed the ban on paid political consultancy, which it has been proposing for a number of years.

In addition, the party wants a wider ban, with exemptions only for MPs holding jobs as doctors or nurses, or in the police and as Army reservists.

The proposed ban on political consultancy is yet to be finalised, with both sides in agreement that the cross-party Commons Standards Committee should draw up detailed rules.

That committee, which has been reviewing the rules for some months, is due to publish its own report on the matter in the coming weeks.

On Wednesday afternoon, MPs will debate competing visions for how the crisis over second jobs should be resolved.

Labour's suggestion would order the standards committee to draw up rules by 31 January to implement the consultancy ban.

If the government did not offer MPs a vote on these rules within 15 days, backbench MPs would gain the power to force one.

However, the government has tabled an amendment - or proposed an alternative - to this plan.


'Dirty Tricks'


This proposal would see the committee coming up with recommendations by the same date, but what happens next is left unclear.

Shadow Commons leader Thangam Debbonaire accused the government of playing "dirty tricks" by using less specific language in its motion.

The PM announced his political consultancy ban on Tuesday, whilst Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was holding a press conference on his party's own proposals.

Speaking to reporters afterwards, Sir Keir described Mr Johnson's move as a "significant victory for the Labour Party".

He told reporters: "Be under no illusion, the prime minister has only done this U-turn because his back was against the wall."

Arguments over second jobs held by MPs outside of Westminster have intensified in recent weeks in the wake of the Mr Paterson's case.

The Conservative MP was found to have broken Commons rules by using his position to lobby for two companies paying him.

Mr Paterson, who has always denied wrongdoing, called the investigation into his conduct unfair.

The government then tried to block his suspension from Parliament, and get the whole disciplinary process for MPs reviewed.

But it abandoned the plan a day later, after an outcry from opposition MPs and some Tories. Mr Paterson then resigned as an MP.


'Deflection'


Since then, the work of a number of MPs has come under scrutiny, including Tory MP and former Attorney General, Sir Geoffrey Cox, who earned more than £700,000 doing legal work in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) on top of his MP salary.

Senior backbench Tory MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown has said he has "no problem" with a ban on paid consultancy work.

But, speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he warned that going further could deter people with "good skills" from entering Parliament.

The SNP's Alison Thewliss told BBC Newsnight that voters should treat the government's plan "with the same cynicism that many of us in [the Commons] treat it with, because nothing is changing."

"It is just deflection by this government, trying to cover up and hide this scandal," she adds.
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