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Philip Dunne: moonlighting in space
SOLOMON HUGHES exposes another top Tory moonlighting for almost half his MP's salary at a rocket company aiming to go ‘five times the speed of sound’ — technology that would be just as useful to warmongers as it would be to astronauts
Philip Dunne: moonlighting in space

EX-MINISTER Philip Dunne is going into space travel — although his move has bigger dangers on Earth than in the heavens.

This July, Dunne started moonlighting from his job as MP for Ludlow with a £39,000-a-year role as a part-time director of Reaction Engines, which is working on a new advanced engine for “space and hypersonic travel.”

Dunne was a defence procurement minister from 2012 to 16 and after that a health minister for two years.

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