MPs pocket £13m from ‘second jobs’ with Theresa May and Sajid Javid leading the pack amid raging cost-of-living crisis

The Conservative government abandoned in March plans to limit MPs’ earnings from any paid work they do outside their parliamentary role. Recent controversies such as the Own Paterson lobbying scandal had seen MP’s second jobs brought into disrepute.  Interested in MPs’ external earnings, an analysis of the latest data from the UK Parliament to establish which MPs have earned [...]