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Tory MP missed winter fuel payment vote for law work in Mauritius
The Guardian
|October 12, 2024
The Conservative MP Geoffrey Cox has missed 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 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.
Cox, who is a KC, was representing the chief prosecutor of Mauritius in a dispute with the nation's police chief over the limits of his powers from 11 to 13 September, and also missed votes on 10 September.
Three years ago, he was criticised for voting remotely while working as a lawyer in the British Virgin Islands when parliamentary procedures during the Covid crisis allowed this.
Cette histoire est tirée de l'édition October 12, 2024 de The Guardian.
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