Boris Johnson has ditched plans to put a limit on how much MPs can earn in a second job in an move to placate Tory backbenchers.
The Prime Minister had pledged to clamp down on MPs’ outside earnings after a huge sleaze row blew up over his friend and now former MP Owen Paterson last year.
Johnson sparked a Commons revolt with a botched attempt to change the parliamentary rules and save Paterson from being suspended for undeclared paid lobbying rules.
