Fri. Dec 13th, 2024
alert-–-starmer’s-plan-to-ban-mps’-second-jobs-is-recipe-for-hiking-their-taxpayer-funded-salaries-and-driving-expertise-out-of-westminster,-tories-sayAlert – Starmer’s plan to ban MPs’ second jobs is recipe for hiking their taxpayer-funded salaries and driving expertise out of Westminster, Tories say

Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to ban MPs’ second jobs is a recipe for hiking their taxpayer-funded salaries and driving expertise out of Westminster, it was claimed last night.

Sources close to Sir Keir confirmed a Labour government would seek to outlaw MPs having outside jobs.

The few exceptions would include letting doctors and nurses continue their work – but not MPs who are lawyers.

The long-promised ban comes amid calls for MPs to stick to representing their constituents, and claims that they are well enough paid at £86,584.

However, senior Tories branded it ‘virtue-signalling’ and warned that cutting outside earnings would lead to salaries being increased.

Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to ban MPs’ second jobs is a recipe for hiking their taxpayer-funded salaries and driving expertise out of Westminster, it was claimed last night

Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said that the move would lead to a ‘professional cadre of politicians removed from the rest of society’.

Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said that the move would lead to a ‘professional cadre of politicians removed from the rest of society’.

He also told The Mail on Sunday: ‘Voters should be free to send to Parliament and re-elect to Parliament whoever they want. If they don’t want people who have outside earnings, they won’t vote for them.’

Sir Jacob added: ‘It will reduce expertise in the Commons because you simply will not get top-rank lawyers who have long been able to carry on with their outside interests without affecting their parliamentary activities.’

But one Labour MP said: ‘Many people will rightly think that being an MP is a full-time job, especially if you’re paid £86,000 a year for the privilege.’

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