MPs have earned at least £6m from second jobs since the start of the pandemic, openDemocracy can reveal.
The highest earners, which include a cabinet minister and a former prime minister, received more than twice their MP’s salary from private companies.
Earlier this week, Tory Owen Paterson resigned as an MP after being found to have broken parliamentary rules. Paterson had lobbied for companies from which he had received more than half a million pounds.
