Feb 25 2015
Ed Miliband has written to David Cameron and Nick Clegg regarding Labour’s Opposition Day Motion, which will bar MPs from holding paid directorships and consultancies. →
Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, writing to David Cameron and Nick Clegg today said:
Dear Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister,
Following the exchanges at PMQs today you will both be pleased to know Leyton and Wanstead MP John Cryer is moving a manuscript amendment to our…
The real question is why an Opposition, led by one of the squeaky clean MPs in the expenses scandal, didn’t already have this ban on paid directorships/consultancies for their parliamentary group.
Transparency International says that the UK is only 14th among the world’s least corrupt countries. Denmark and New Zealand lead that list of least corrupt. TI looked at 19 European countries: “No country comes even close to having ideal safeguards in place on open/ethical lobbying.”
