BREAKING: Tory MP releases defiant statement defending £935-an-hour second job
Sir Geoffrey Cox earned the thick end of £1,000 an hour and appeared to spend nearly a fortnight a month on his controversial Caribbean legal work.
Analysis by Metro.co.uk reveals between January 1 and July 31, Sir Geoffrey was raking in £935 an hour on top of his £82,000 annual salary. Assuming an average working day is eight hours, that means he spent nearly a fortnight every month engaged in legal work rather than on parliamentary business. The bell referred to could be the division bell that sounds off across the parliament estate to alert MPs to a vote taking place.supports HTML5 video
Labour has written to the independent commissioner to demand an investigation over the alleged breach. Boris Johnson’s failed attempt to tear up parliamentary rules on standards has backfire spectacularly
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