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Johnson recommends UK Parliament to ban lawmakers from working as paid consultants

London, Nov 16 (UNI/Sputnik) UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday recommended to update the Parliament´s Code of Conduct in order to ban elected lawmakers from working as paid consultants and lobbyists.
In a letter addressed to the Speaker of the House of Commons, Johnson said that lawmakers "should never accept any payment of offer of employment to act as political or Parliamentary consultants or advisers."
He also proposed that "any outside activity undertaken by a MP [Member of Parliament], whether remunerated or unremunerated, should be within reasonable limits and should not prevent them from fully carrying out other range of duties.
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