Boris Johnson faces grilling from MPs amid sleaze row
The Hindu
He has also moved to bar MPs from consultancy work
Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a parliamentary grilling on Wednesday over sleaze allegations, as tensions ran high within his Conservative party due to his proposals to ban MPs from paid political consultancy work.
With Opposition parties on the attack and rank-and-file Tory MPs unhappy, the quizzing from the heads of Parliament’s cross-party select committees at 1500 GMT could be the least of Mr. Johnson’s worries.
But he has tried to get on the front foot to tackle a simmering row about MPs supplementing their publicly funded salaries with lucrative second jobs, stoking claims about conflict of interest.
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