Petition · past parliament

Introduce a mandatory full time working week for MPs and stop second jobbing

Rejected 20 signatures

What the petition asks

A week after it was announced that Tatton MP George Osborne was taking a £650k pro rata role advising a finance firm he was appointed editor of the Evening Standard, but insists on keeping his MPs salary. We call on him to resign and the government to ban second jobbing and make our MPs full time.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Timeline

18 Mar 2017 Petition opened for signatures
24 Mar 2017 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 20
Status Rejected
Rejected 24 Mar 2017

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.