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Unemployment may be rising, but a glittering array of plum jobs is coming up for grabs. On 1 July, new House of Commons rules will require MPs with outside interests to declare not only how many hours they work, but how much they are paid for them. It seems nearly a third of MPs from all parties have second jobs, while 93 honorable members are currently remunerated for sitting on the boards of about 270 companies.
The members of David Cameron's shadow cabinet alone, it is whispered, have collectively been pocketing up to £2.7m a year in exchange for assorted non-Westminster activities, on top of annual salaries of at least £65,000 (plus, ahem, expenses).
But let us not be churlish. This could be an opportunity. Thanks to the high-mindedness of senior Conservative MPs, there is presently (or soon will be) a vacancy for a £100,000 a year non-executive director at merchant bank NM Rothschild Corporate Finance (thank you, Oliver Letwin). A clutch of £25,000-£30,000 a year directorships are up for grabs at software firm Mediasurface, reinsurance group Benfield and ad agency Mission Marketing (ditto, Francis Maude), as is an £80,000 advisory role at pensions company Punter Southall (David Willetts) and a £40,000 post at US private-equity outfit Pegasus Capital Advisers (Gregory Barker).
Similarly, we have Grant Shapps to thank for the reported availability of a directorship at PrintHouse Corporation; David Gauke for a directorship at internet bank Ivobank; and Andrew Mitchell for six directorships at various divisions of merchant bank Lazards, as well as an advisory post at consultancy Accenture. William Hague is famously giving up a whole gamut of outside jobs, including directorships and advisory posts, that earned him an estimated £230,000 last year, and Alan Duncan is stepping down from oil and energy firms Harcourt, Arawak and Catalytic Solutions.
Time to polish up those CVs, readers, wouldn't you say?
Unemployment may be rising, but a glittering array of plum jobs is coming up for grabs. On 1 July, new House of Commons rules will require MPs with outside interests to declare not only how many hours they work, but how much they are paid for them. It seems nearly a third of MPs from all parties have second jobs, while 93 honorable members are currently remunerated for sitting on the boards of about 270 companies.
The members of David Cameron's shadow cabinet alone, it is whispered, have collectively been pocketing up to £2.7m a year in exchange for assorted non-Westminster activities, on top of annual salaries of at least £65,000 (plus, ahem, expenses).
But let us not be churlish. This could be an opportunity. Thanks to the high-mindedness of senior Conservative MPs, there is presently (or soon will be) a vacancy for a £100,000 a year non-executive director at merchant bank NM Rothschild Corporate Finance (thank you, Oliver Letwin). A clutch of £25,000-£30,000 a year directorships are up for grabs at software firm Mediasurface, reinsurance group Benfield and ad agency Mission Marketing (ditto, Francis Maude), as is an £80,000 advisory role at pensions company Punter Southall (David Willetts) and a £40,000 post at US private-equity outfit Pegasus Capital Advisers (Gregory Barker).
Similarly, we have Grant Shapps to thank for the reported availability of a directorship at PrintHouse Corporation; David Gauke for a directorship at internet bank Ivobank; and Andrew Mitchell for six directorships at various divisions of merchant bank Lazards, as well as an advisory post at consultancy Accenture. William Hague is famously giving up a whole gamut of outside jobs, including directorships and advisory posts, that earned him an estimated £230,000 last year, and Alan Duncan is stepping down from oil and energy firms Harcourt, Arawak and Catalytic Solutions.
Time to polish up those CVs, readers, wouldn't you say?
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