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EVERYBODY is happier seeing Labour being much more muscular than usual when challenging Tory attempts to tear up anti-corruption rules to protect Owen Paterson and give more Tory MPs the chance to take £100,000 salaries to moonlight as corporate lobbyists.
Actually opposing the Tories on a popular point of principle might even help Labour recover in the polls. But there is one weakness.
Labour’s 2019 manifesto policy was simple and firm: “We will stop MPs from taking paid second jobs.” This would stop Paterson-style corruption in its tracks. It’s easily understood: MPs should not be moonlighting for corporations, they should work for their voters — not for their £100,000 employers on the side.
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