“There’s a wider pattern here. When Boris Johnson doesn’t like the outcome of an official process, he tries to rip up the rules and start again," Jo Maugham said.

"Not enjoying my breakfast this morning. This is sickening," one person tweeted in response.

His comments come in the wake of the second job scandal in parliament, which has seen many MPs pursue outside interests.

“How come Xmas trees are up when they're not putting them up till after 12th?”, one eagle-eyed constituent said.

Starmer's office had argued there was nothing to worry about in him taking the job, because the Mishcon training academy, which he would be advising, was "really cool."

Brexiteer Lord Lilley said peers would be "left open to ridicule if the only exception we are prepared to make is to help us deal with the servant problem".

According to the Mirror the UK's wealthiest MP rents out a taxpayer-funded London flat while claiming £1,900 a month for a second home - also in London.

Simon Kofe said rising sea levels are an “existential threat” to Tuvalu and surrounding islands.

"Our Prime Minister just interrupted possibly the planet’s last chance to save itself from climate devastation to tell everyone Britain is "not remotely a corrupt country”".