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The Tory grandee at the centre of the second jobs scandal was paid £54,404 for 45 hours’ work, it emerged last night.
Sir Geoffrey Cox received the huge sum in August, the updated register of MPs’ financial interests shows.
It means he got £1,209 for every hour he put in for international law firm Withers - which also pays him £400,000 a year as a ‘consultant global counsel’.
Sir Geoffrey Cox (pictured) received £54,404 for 45 hours work in August, the updated register of MPs’ financial interests shows
His earnings were published a week after the Daily Mail revealed how the former attorney general had voted remotely in Parliament while in the Caribbean advising the British Virgin Islands government in a corruption case.
The Mail then found Sir Geoffrey’s moonlighting had earned him £5.5million as a barrister over the past decade, prompting calls for a crackdown on MPs’ outside earnings.
The revelation came as Dominic Raab yesterday warned MPs they could face an ‘earning limit’ on second jobs.
His earnings were published a week after the Daily Mail revealed how the former attorney
