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PM REFUSES TO CLAMP DOWN ON TWO-JOB MPs
PRIME MINISTER David Cameron stuck up for his second-job chums yesterday by rejecting calls to limit MPs’ outside income in the wake of a fresh Commons cash-for-access scandal.
Ex-foreign secretaries Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind were suspended from their parties after a TV sting operation caught them red-handed bragging to a fictitious firm about their “unique” contacts and preferred fees.
Yet astonishingly Mr Cameron moved swiftly to snuff out calls to rein in the extraparliamentary activities of part-time MPs in the wake of the scandal.
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