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Posts Tagged: Parliamentarians’ duties and remuneration

James Frayne: Right or wrong, most people bitterly oppose MPs having “second jobs”

If politicians will create a big, interventionist state, then voters will expect them to manage it on a full-time basis.

By James Frayne | 21 March 2017 | 28 comments

MPs’ pay: Cameron has cake and eats it. (And what’s the point of having cake unless you eat it?)

The palaver over MPs’ pay is a consequence of our collective unwillingness to decide what they are and what they should do.

By Paul Goodman | 5 June 2015 | 40 comments

Daniel Hannan MEP: Scrap IPSA, keep outside interests, adopt Recall – and free the Commons from professional politicians

Instead of prohibiting second jobs, we should treat serving as an MP as being a second job.

By Daniel Hannan MEP | 4 March 2015 | 64 comments

Julia Manning: Why MPs should no longer have outside interests

They should do a job as elected representatives and be suitably paid for it.

By Julia Manning | 28 February 2015 | 82 comments

The Commons can’t afford to lose people like Hugh Robertson

Parliament and people are paying a price for the shift to professional politics.

By Paul Goodman | 15 January 2015 | 21 comments

Geoffrey Cox, my hero

We need more Parliamentarians capable of earning £1,333 per hour – not fewer.

By Paul Goodman | 19 November 2014 | 59 comments

Iain Dale: Coming – The NHS: Things that need to be said. My new book.

And: Clegg – where is he? Simmonds – what’s he on? ISIS: they have no Islamic state and we should bomb them. Plus: The new peerages – on the whole, a mistake.

By Iain Dale | 15 August 2014 | 84 comments

Brady: When it comes to complaints about MPs, the whips have a conflict of interest

He suggests that the ’22 is a more reliable guardian of backbenchers’ interests than the leadership

By Paul Goodman | 13 April 2014 | 37 comments

How to win the next Conservative leadership election

Post-Miller, post-Evans, post allegations of sexual harrassment, a future speech to the ’22 by a prospective candidate.

By Paul Goodman | 11 April 2014 | 30 comments

WATCH: Maria Miller – “I take full responsibility for my decision to resign.”

The former Culture Secretary on leaving the Government.

9 April 2014 | 23 comments

Zac Goldsmith MP: The Miller controversy is a reminder of why we need a proper Right of Recall

The Government’s proposal to give recall powers to the Standards Committee simply won’t do.

By Zac Goldsmith MP | 8 April 2014 | 111 comments

Cameron is right to stand by Miller

The attempt by the press to bully the Culture Secretary out of public life has got completely out of hand, and must be resisted.

By Andrew Gimson | 6 April 2014 | 112 comments

Miller should resign and Parliament should reform

The public needs to know which MPs on the Standards Committee voted to cut Miller’s repayment to only £5,800.

By Cameron Penny | 6 April 2014 | 39 comments

Why Sir Ian Kennedy gets a fail for his homework

MPs will always mark theirs – and everyone else’s, since we vote them in. Which is why Sir Ian’s new idea makes no sense.

By Paul Goodman | 6 April 2014 | 43 comments

Ten points on Maria Miller

The Culture Secretary’s options are now very limited.

By Paul Goodman | 5 April 2014 | 117 comments

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