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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 did not say he was looking for second jobs when he stood in 2019, yet he took his space-rocket moonlighting job within a year of his re-election — the people of Ludlow voted for him, he works for someone else and now one more MP is financially connected to the arms industry
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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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