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MPs who could be affected by Boris Johnson’s consultancy ban
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Boris Johnson has responded to a fortnight of headlines about sleaze by proposing that MPs should be barred from also working as a “parliamentary strategist, adviser or consultant” or from carrying out other work that might “prevent them from carrying out their range of duties”.
Johnson’s letter to the Commons Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, was somewhat vague, and Downing Street said it was up to MPs to decide the precise definitions of what would be barred and whether to add more restrictions.
If kept as outlined, the new rules may not affect a large number of MPs, despite the many backbenchers – including more than one in four Tory MPs – with second jobs. A 2018 report by the Committee on Standards in Public Life, which first came up with the
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