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Shamed former Tory MP Julie Kirkbride lands £100,000 lobbying job<br> By [/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Jason+Groves+for+the+Daily+Mail Jason Groves for the Daily Mail] <br>  Updated:  16:41 GMT,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-vinh-ha-long-ha-noi-gia-re-nhat-dich-vu-tot-nhat.html kynghidongduong.vn] 24 May 2010   <br><br>  <br><br><br><br><br><br>[ ]   [ ]   [#socialLinks ]   [/news/article-1281062/Shamed-Tory-MP-Julie-Kirkbride-lands-100-000-lobbying-job.html#comments  <br>View <br>comments]  <br><br><br>     Plum job: Former Tory MP Julie Kirkbride will earn £100,000 as a lobbyist<br> <br>Former Tory MP Julie Kirkbride has landed a lucrative job in the lobbying industry days after being forced to quit the Commons because of public anger over her expenses.<br><br>Miss Kirkbride, 49, was appointed as a consultant to the Westminster-based lobbying firm Tetra Strategy on a salary rumoured to be approaching £100,000.<br><br>Last year her former MP husband Andrew Mackay, who was also embroiled in the expenses scandal, landed a six-figure salary post as ‘international consultant' to the lobbying giant Burston-Marsteller.<br><br>The appointments are a potential embarrassment for David Cameron who has already warned his ministers to guard against attempts by lobbyists to influence policy on behalf of their clients.<br><br> In a speech in February this year the Tory leader warned that lobbying was ‘the next big scandal waiting to happen'.<br><br>Miss Kirkbride and Mr Mackay faced a public outcry during last year's expenses scandal after it emerged they had managed to claim lavish expenses on both their London and constituency homes at the same time.<br><br><br><br><br>Between them the couple were ordered to pay back more than £60,000 after details of their arrangement were made public.<br><br>The couple both faced angry public backlashes in their constituencies and  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-vinh-ha-long-ha-noi-gia-re-nhat-dich-vu-tot-nhat.html tour hạ long] stood down at the election. Now they are both looking to cash in the contacts picked up during their years on the public payroll.<br><br>Tetra Strategy said Miss Kirkbride, a former journalist and one-time shadow culture minister, would bring a ‘wealth of Parliamentary experience' to the firm, who listed clients include Innocent Drinks and the School Food Trust quango.<br><br>In a [http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/search?q=statement statement] the company said: ‘Julie will enhance our already strong political diversity across the three main parties enabling us to offer the very best advice to our clients.'<br><br>Miss Kirkbride is believed to have been looking for a well-paid lobbying job for several months before she stood down as an MP.<br><br><br><br><br>However she managed to avoid getting caught up in a sting operation by Channel Four's Despatches programme earlier this year, which filmed former Cabinet ministers Stephen Byers, Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt boasting of their influence. <br><br><br>Miss Kirkbride was approached by the fake lobbyists but smelled a rat and tipped off other Tory MPs involved.<br><br>Lobbyists have been desperately seeking well-connected Tories in recent months in the belief that they will be able to open doors with the incoming Government.<br><br>Earlier this year Mr Cameron hit out at the revolving door between politics and the lobbying industry - warning that it was damaging trust in politics.<br><br>He said: 'We all know how it works.<br><br>The lunches, the hospitality, the quiet word in your ear, the ex-ministers and ex-advisers for hire, helping big business find the right way to get its way. <br><br>'I believe that secret corporate lobbying, like the expenses scandal, goes to the heart of why people are so fed up with politics.'<br><br><br> <br>