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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.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
Sharon Graham addresses the Unite policy conference after talks over the Birmingham bin strikes break down