A Tory former minister has quit £38,000 a year's worth of second jobs after the Sunday Mirror revealed he had apparently broken outside earnings rules.
Ex-health minister Steve Brine claimed to have consulted revolving door watchdog about all of his outside jobs.
But an investigation by this paper discovered he had not consulted them over a £1,600 role giving "strategic advice" to Sigma pharmaceuticals until after he took the job - an apparent breach of the ministerial code.
And it can now be revealed that Mr Brine quit two further roles just weeks after the Sunday Mirror's story - one with a healthcare recruitment firm, Remedium Partners and another with Microlink PC, an IT firm.
Both firms paid him £1,600 a month for "strategic advice."
The Sunday Mirror approached Mr Brine and the Conservative Party for comment.
Mr Brine quietly quit the job with Sigma in November, after the Prime Minister vowed to ban MPs from "exploiting their positions" with consultancy jobs.
Former Ministers have to consult jobs watchdog the Advisory Body on Business Appointments (ACOBA) before taking any job within two years of leaving government.
But ACOBA said he had only consulted them after he had already taken the job, so they refused to give him advice.
Mr Brine said last month he was “going to look into all of this with the House authorities, at the earliest opportunity, and make sure everything is in order.”
Mr Brine already faced questions over a meeting he attended in February between Sigma and then-Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi.
Two months later, the firm was awarded a £100,000 government contract to supply Covid-19 tests to pharmacies.
But both the firm and Mr Brine deny he acted as a lobbyist, and insist he played no role in the deal.
