Boris Johnson has conceded that MPs should be banned from acting as paid political consultants for private companies.The Tory leader was shamed into action ahead of a Labour vote in the Commons demanding MPs be banned from paid directorship and consultancies.Johnson moved a fortnight after igniting a sleaze scandal with a parliamentary vote overturning the standards committee recommendation that Owen Paterson be suspended for undeclared lobbying.Johnson's panicked dash for decency attempted to draw a line under a fortnight of damaging revelations that have seen the Conservative poll lead slip.The Prime Minister caved to pressure to root out sleaze just as Labour leader Keir Starmer began a press conference demanding tightening of the
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