So what do MPs do in their spare time? One would think running a govt department and representing a constituency of thousands would keep you busy.
However, that has never been the way. True some MPs do a lot of unpaid charity work…a lot do paid very well paid ‘side hustles.’
So campaign group Led By Donkeys set up a non-existent overseas company to approach MPs to work as consultants.
Hancock/Kwarteng
Well, it seems love rat Matt Hancock and economy rat Kwasi Kwarteng said their daily rate for consultancy would be £10,000.
Mr Hancock and Mr Kwarteng both set out six-figure sums for what they would expect to be paid to advise a non-existent firm in South Korea.
There is no accusation of wrongdoing, with MPs permitted to seek employment outside of Parliament, but how does it sit with you?
Mr Hancock, asked whether he had a daily rate during an online “interview”, said: “I do, yes. It is 10,000 sterling.”
A spokesman for Mr Hancock said the West Suffolk MP had “acted entirely properly and within the rules”.
Former Tory chancellor Mr Kwarteng, when asked the same question, said: “I would say as an MP, obviously I don’t need to earn a king’s ransom.
“But I wouldn’t do anything less than for about 10,000 dollars a month.”
Here is the Kwasi vid…
Brady
Out of those contacted, five are said to have progressed to an online interview stage, including Mr Hancock and four Tories: Mr Kwarteng, former education secretary Sir Gavin Williamson, former minister Stephen Hammond and Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee/
Sir Graham, according to the video, said he was “thinking something like £60,000 as an annual rate” for assisting the firm, nice work if you can get it.
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