It was interesting to read the parliamentary commissioner for standards’ ideas for potential rules around MPs and second jobs (“Ethics chief defends parliament’s ‘very thin cats’”, Report, November 27).
Here’s another suggestion. For an MP with another job (or jobs), it’s not enough to claim that constituents will deduce whether they’re happy with the conduct of their representative at Westminster. By then it’s too late.
Prospective parliamentary candidates, when seeking the nomination, could disclose and defend at that stage the other jobs they intend to take on.
Alex May
Manchester, UK
