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Gordon Brown leads list of MPs who earn most outside Parliament
MPs topped up their salaries with outside earnings worth £7m last year, with 20 backbenchers
making more money from other jobs than from their parliamentary salaries, new research
disclosed last night.
The highest earner was the former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who declared payments
totalling £1.37m in the parliamentary session which ended this month, according to The Guardian.
The payments were 20 times higher than the £65,738 salary which he collects as an MP.
His income came from delivering speeches around the world. Mr Brown explained none of the
money went to him personally, with £600,000 going to charity and the balance was used to run an
office to "support my ongoing involvement in public life".
The next biggest earner was the Conservative MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham, Stephen Phillips,
who declared earnings of almost £750,000, which came from his work as a barrister, including
some cases which began before the last parliamentary session.
