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David Willetts vows to give up AGBP80,000 second job.

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| June 30, 2009 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From The Portsmouth Evening News)

Byline: Elise Brewerton

The Tory, who already takes home AGBP64,766 as an MP, is an adviser for pension company Punter Southall and earns AGBP2,000 a day for 40 days' work a year.But he has now promised to give up the post after Tory leader David Cameron made it clear he wants MPs with second jobs to give them up by the end of the year at the latest.The Conservatives make up more than half the number of MPs who hold jobs outside Parliament.Mr Willetts, who last week paid back AGBP600 he overclaimed in council tax as well as AGBP135 for lightbulbs in the wake of the expenses row, said: 'I'm going to give up my post at the end of the …

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