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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.
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
Labour’s toxic centrists have wealthy backers but there’s little to suggest they can win over MPs or party members in an open fight, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
