Anne-Marie Trevelyan’s remarks come before Commons debate on sleaze
A cabinet minister has said she backs a ban on MPs having lobbying-based second jobs after Owen Paterson’s departure from parliament, in the run-up to a Commons debate on wider allegations of sleaze that Boris Johnson is not expected to attend.
Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the international trade secretary, said she would support a plan considered by the Commons standards committee for MPs to be barred from paid lobbying on behalf of commercial interests, as Paterson did.