SIR - When Ed Milliband was leader of the Labour Party he frequently accused George Osborne of being a part-time Chancellor of the Exchequer.

News that Osborne is to become the editor of the London Evening Standard makes you wonder how he can find the time to serve his constituents as an MP; a former editor of the London Evening Standard claimed he worked an 80-100-hour week!

This moonlighting of jobs in Parliament is nothing new.

Boris Johnson was serving as Mayor of London when he became MP in 2015, not to mention his £275,000-a-year pay for writing a column for the Daily Telegraph.

Sir Nicholas Soames, Tory grandee and grandson of Winston Churchill, an MP since 1983, tried to block the introduction of a £3.60 minimum wage in 1998, while holding senior positions at four businesses.

This is the tip of the iceberg; 303 MPs and 493 Peers have outside earnings, they may not have broken any laws, but it can’t be right that these elected representatives are not giving 100 per cent effort to those they deem to represent.

John Appleyard, Firthcliffe Parade, Liversedge