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Boris Johnson admits he got it wrong on sleaze as MPs vote for second job restrictions

By Andrew Woodcock

Labor says PM’s crackdown on outside work is ‘watered down’ version of reforms proposed by Starmer

Boris Johnson has admitted he got it wrong on Owen Paterson, as a fortnight of sleaze rows sparked by his attempt to save the disgraced former MP ended with the Commons voting for a ban on consultancy jobs.

Speaking to Tory MPs at the backbench 1922 Committee, a contrite prime minister admitted: “On a clear road I crashed a car into a ditch.”

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