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Falconer, the gold-digging Labour Lord
Cynicism about politicians typically serves the Tory vote, which thrives on a negative view of humanity — but the situation is not helped when Labour figures too are caught with their snouts in some of the nastiest second-job troughs going, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
Lord Falconer

LABOUR are — rightly — doing well out of the growing “second jobs” scandal in Parliament: the MPs with big-bucks-second-jobs and the ones who have tried to influence the government for their paymasters are overwhelmingly Tory.

Boris Johnson’s ham-fisted attempt to get Owen Paterson off for breaking the rules has led to anger about how far MPs are allowed to moonlight for corporations within those rules and calls to tighten the rules.

Keir Starmer’s team have pressed on how Conservative MPs are helping their corporate friends and themselves, not the voters. They’ve done it with more vigour than we are used to, which is good.

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