Former agriculture minister John Gummer was famously pictured feeding a beef burger to his four-year-old daughter Cordelia in 1990 at the height of the BSE crisis
A former Tory Minister set to provide the Government with crucial advice on climate change is at the centre of a new conflict-of-interest row after it was revealed he is chairman of a consortium bidding to build one of the world’s biggest offshore windfarms.
John Selwyn Gummer, who was Environment Secretary under John Major and Agriculture Minister in Margaret Thatcher’s Government, is the newly designated chairman of the powerful Committee on Climate Change (CCC). It was set up to provide David Cameron with independent advice on energy policy and climate change.
But a Mail on Sunday investigation has learned the former MP – who became Lord Deben in 2010 – is also chairman of Forewind, a consortium trying to build thousands of turbines in the North Sea’s Dogger Bank.
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Little Jack Horner
Sat in corner
With a finger in every pie.
He stuck in a thumb
Then pulled out a plum
And said what a good boy am I.
it looks like our mps cant survive on their pay or are being greedie by grabing more ,its not only tory playing in the water look also to our glorioous labour party also playing in it hain and i bet some more .have they not heard and stuck to being politicians not working for companys who will be asking for help from them is this not working for two masters and should be baned if they cant survive on their mps wages perhaps they like to hand their job over so it can be done by someone who do it without looking to line their pockets with more pure greed by those who ru n us jeff3
Yes, funny how “career politicians” are are not so dedicated to their career to stop them doing a spot of moonlighting.
It is not so much moonlighting by collecting directorships, it is more using the letters mp as a means to an end. That end is most certainly not serving the people.