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Amazing.
'No Ships' Chris Grayling To Be Paid £100,000 A Year To Advise Ports Company
Former transport secretary Chris Grayling, who once gave a no-deal Brexit ferry contract to a company with no ships, is to be paid £100,000 a year to advise a leading ports company.
Grayling, once dubbed the “worst transport secretary of all time” by Labour, will collect his six-figure salary in return for just seven hours of work per week for Hutchison Ports Europe.
The Tory MP’s appointment as a “strategic adviser” was approved by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments earlier
this month, the latest MPs’ register of interests shows.
Grayling’s time at the Department for Transport left taxpayers with a £100m bill for ferries chartered to bring in vital supplies if there was a no-deal Brexit, but which were never used.
He also faced calls to resign after awarding one of the contracts - worth £13.8m - to run Channel crossings between Belgian port Ostend and Ramsgate in Kent to Seaborne Freight - a company which had no ferries.
But Grayling refused to apologise for the debacle, describing criticism of him as “baffling” and at one point telling the Commons “I did see ships”, in a reversal of Horatio Nelson’s famous quote.
Liberal Democrat MP Christine Jardine said: “The now former minister for no ships must wish his list of successes was as long as his list of nicknames.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/chris-grayling-ports-brexit-ferries-182540825.html
Former transport secretary Chris Grayling, who once gave a no-deal Brexit ferry contract to a company with no ships, is to be paid £100,000 a year to advise a leading ports company.
Grayling, once dubbed the “worst transport secretary of all time” by Labour, will collect his six-figure salary in return for just seven hours of work per week for Hutchison Ports Europe.
The Tory MP’s appointment as a “strategic adviser” was approved by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments earlier
this month, the latest MPs’ register of interests shows.
Grayling’s time at the Department for Transport left taxpayers with a £100m bill for ferries chartered to bring in vital supplies if there was a no-deal Brexit, but which were never used.
He also faced calls to resign after awarding one of the contracts - worth £13.8m - to run Channel crossings between Belgian port Ostend and Ramsgate in Kent to Seaborne Freight - a company which had no ferries.
But Grayling refused to apologise for the debacle, describing criticism of him as “baffling” and at one point telling the Commons “I did see ships”, in a reversal of Horatio Nelson’s famous quote.
Liberal Democrat MP Christine Jardine said: “The now former minister for no ships must wish his list of successes was as long as his list of nicknames.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/chris-grayling-ports-brexit-ferries-182540825.html
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He's been a good boy to powerful people and picking up his pocket money.
It's quite sickeningly actually.
MP who beat Chris Grayling to intelligence chair role loses Tory whip
Julian Lewis kicked out of parliamentary party after beating Boris Johnson’s pick
Boris Johnson was humiliated on Wednesday after Chris Grayling, his pick to lead parliament’s powerful intelligence and security committee, was unexpectedly rejected in an ambush by MPs.
The former cabinet minister was defeated by fellow Conservative Julian Lewis – prompting an embarrassed Downing Street to kick the victor, who was accused of duplicitous behaviour, out of the parliamentary party.
One source said Grayling “didn’t see it coming” as the nine members of the MPs’ committee voted five to four in favour of Lewis, with the four opposition members all voting against Grayling.
A furious Downing Street responded by stripping the whip from Lewis – a Tory MP since 1997 – “because he worked with Labour and other opposition MPs to his own advantage”.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/15/chris-grayling-fails-to-become-intelligence-and-security-chair