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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Geoffrey Cox missed winter fuel votes while working abroad in second job

Geoffrey Cox
Geoffrey Cox was re-elected as the Conservative MP for Torridge and Tavistock in Devon in July. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters

The Tory MP Geoffrey Cox has been missing parliamentary votes and sitting days while working at his lucrative second job as a lawyer in Mauritius, the Guardian can reveal.

The former attorney general, who has declared at least £500,000 in pay from his second job this year, was on the Indian Ocean island for at least three days in mid-September and missed two votes on cuts to the winter fuel allowance.

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