Exclusive: Impact of standards rule change on 99 MPs with jobs outside parliament likely to be limited
Fewer than 10 MPs are likely to be affected by Boris Johnson’s proposed rule changes on second jobs, analysis of the register of interests suggests.
It came as the prime minister conceded it was a “total mistake” to back disgraced MP Owen Paterson, admitting to backbench MPs on the 1922 committee “on a clear road I crashed the car into a ditch”.