Top Tory MPs demand £10,000 daily rate to work for fake Korean company

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock says he accepted £10,000 daily fee to serve bogus business interests - the experience was set up by the campaign group Led By Les ânes

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Top Tories are asking for £10,000 a day to work for a fake company

Former cabinet ministers Matt Hancock and Kwasi Kwarteng have told a fake overseas firm looking for parliamentary advisers that their daily consultancy rate will be £10,000.

In an undercover operation set up by campaign group Led By Donkeys, Mr Hancock and Mr Kwarteng both set six-figure sums for what they would expect to be paid to advise a non-existent company in South Korea.

There are no accusations of wrongdoing, as MPs are allowed to seek employment outside of Parliament.

Hancock, who was asked if he had a daily rate in an online 'interview', replied: "Yes, yes. It's £10,000."

Led By Donkeys tweeted a seven-minute video tonight titled "MPS FOR HIRE: a Led By Donkeys undercover investigation".

Matt Hancock agreed to work for £10,000 a day to serve the interests of a bogus South Korean company (

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A spokesperson for Led By Donkeys told the Mirror: 'This experiment was designed to test whether MPs would be willing to work for a bogus foreign company during the cost of living crisis.

"We wanted to know if they would take time off from their actual work to represent their constituents, including travel to South Korea, and how much money they would like to be paid. We will publish the results in the next few months. days."

Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 committee, also attended an online meeting for the fake company. He made it clear that he could not represent the interests of the company, but that he might be able to help the company know who to contact within the government.

He said a rate of £6,000 "seems fair" and the payments will be on the public register.

And former minister Stephen Hammond has also been approached. He said he considered he had been "scammed" and thought he was engaged in a preliminary discussion with a company, but "it turns out that this company was fake, with a fake website".

The deputies all respected the rules in force and recalled their obligations towards their constituents during the meetings.

They are not banned from these meetings and no arrangement has been finalized.

However, this comes at a time when the earnings of politicians outside of their role in government are under scrutiny.