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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
The best way for an MP to avoid conflicts of interests is by having no other jobs.
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Currently there are calls to ban the type of secondary work that Owen Paterson was doing i.e. paid advocacy and consultancy
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...eaze-clampdown
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MPs could be banned from having consultancy jobs like Owen Paterson’s under plans for a clampdown on sleaze being considered by the Commons standards committee.
The prospect of tightened restrictions on MPs’ second jobs is to be decided within weeks and could affect more than 30 parliamentarians earning between £180,000 and hundreds of pounds a year on top of their £82,000 salary.
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30 MPs would be affected - 28 are Conservative.
However it is a difficult situation - I'm not convinced having more people become career politicians is a good thing either. Without real world experiences of situations they affect, they become detached from the impact of the votes and bills.
We already have a set of MPs going straight into politics from University so they don't know anything other that the Westminster world.