'Let's ban MPs from hiring themselves out like taxis to the highest bidders'

26 March 2023 , 21:12

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Ex-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng was secretly filmed offering to work on the side for £10,000 a day (Image: AFP via Getty Images)

Stamp out Tory touts

Greedy Tory MPs and former Ministers demanding up to £10,000 a day to assist a South Korean company is the unacceptable face of politics.

Ex-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, former Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Tory grandee Graham Brady eagerly trying to fill their pockets are a disgrace to Westminster.

Banning MPs from hiring themselves out like taxis to the highest bidders must be outlawed, and we welcome Keir Starmer’s pledge that a Labour majority in the Commons would ban this sleazy activity.

Amid the cost of living crisis, the five-figure sums requested by these self-interested ogres are obscene, and the revulsion of the public is entirely understandable and justified.

We want politicians who serve the people, not their own bank accounts.

Teachers, civil servants and train drivers walk out in biggest strike in decade

And when the Tories have held down wages and scythed the welfare state since their party first resumed power in 2010, collecting private wealth while imposing public squalor should be the final nail in the Conservative coffin.

Bills are expected to rise from next month (stock image) (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Bills piling up

April Cruel Day, when households are hit by rises totalling £700 a year, will be another crushing blow for fleeced ­families, workers and pensioners.

Prices, charges and taxes all shooting up means that people are going without, dipping into ever-dwindling savings or taking out costly credit to keep their heads above water.

This is the real world, not the upbeat economic guff we hear from Rishi Sunak, Jeremy Hunt and the other Conservative propagandists pretending things are getting better.

Life is actually getting harder rather than easier – and that’s a woeful Tory achievement.

Defiant fans

England's UEFA Euro qualifier game against Ukraine yesterday was set against a bloody backdrop.

So it was a joy to see so many Ukrainian fans waving their flags at Wembley, in defiance of Putin laying waste to parts of their country.

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