Ex-PM Liz Truss earned £20k an hour since leaving Quantity 10

MPs are incomes tons of of kilos per hour in second jobs outdoors of their parliamentary roles. 

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Some are even incomes as much as 1000's per hour with former Conservative MP Boris Johnson incomes a mean of £21,800 an hour. 

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In a desk launched by Sky News displaying Westminster Accounts, knowledge reveals what number of hours every MP has labored in second jobs and the equal hourly charge they've acquired. 

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Mr Johnson was paid the equal of £51,000 per hour from publishers Harpers Collins. 

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Former Prime Minister Liz Truss earnt a mean of £15,700 per hour, with £20,000 being her highest earnings per hour for a speech in Taiwan. 

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She was paid almost 1,500 instances' the UK common hourly wage for her insights into world diplomacy. 

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The common wage for MPs with second jobs was revealed as £233 per hour, which is 17 instances the nationwide common and greater than 22 instances larger than the minimal hourly wage.

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Also on the listing of excessive earners was Alok Sharma, Theresa May, Fiona Bruce, Sajid Javid, Julian Smith, Greg Clark, Ian Blackford and Michael Gove. 

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The accounts undertaking was produced in affiliation with media firm Tortoise, which analysed the info offered by MPs on how a lot time they've labored on second jobs on this parliament. 

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The three-and-a-half 12 months interval has proven many MPs had no different earnings from a second job. 

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The chief of the Conservatives within the Scottish Parliament, Douglas Ross, was discovered to have labored probably the most hours outdoors his work as a backbench MP. 

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He recorded working 3,869 hours on prime of his position as an MP as a member of the Scottish parliament and as a referee for the Scottish Football Association, 

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Former SNP Westminster chief Ian Blackford - who earned over £38,000 for 31 hours' work on this parliament instructed Sky News there was a "legitimate debate" available about MPs' outdoors earnings.

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He stated: ”You have seen clearly the likes of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss earn eyewatering sums of cash on the talking circuit, benefiting from the place that that they had as prime minister, and I believe rightly persons are appalled at that type of behaviour.

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"I think it is important that we can trust our politicians and I think people have to look very carefully at what they do.

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"Being an MP is an important job, it's a full-time job. 

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“Of course, on the finish of the day you might be accountable to your citizens whenever you stand in entrance of them on the subsequent election. 

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“I believe most MPs do work very arduous, it's an all-consuming job.

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"But absolutely, let's make sure that there is full transparency on this, that people are not abusing the privileges that are put in them as members of parliament."

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