Top-earning Tory’s second job saw him vote remotely from Caribbean tax haven
Geoffrey Cox earned hundreds of thousands of pounds advising the British Virgin Islands in a case against the UK state.
Geoffrey Cox earned hundreds of thousands of pounds advising the British Virgin Islands in a case against the UK state.
Sir Geoffrey Cox declared £570,000 in earnings last year, making him the highest-earning MP.
The Labour leader said Johnson starts fights with Brussels to distract from scandals like the Owen Paterson affair.
Johnson's much-trumpeted FTAs “barely scratch the surface of the UK’s challenge to make up the GDP lost by leaving the EU”.
A general election is a long way off, but a leadership challenge could be in the offing.
“I know ministers have a busy life, but I guess you’d hope that the education secretary would do his homework.”
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today that there was an arrogance at the heart of the government, a "general whiff of 'we are the masters now'."
Major said the dangerous move would be "silly politics" to placate "extreme Brexiteers".
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