. >> well sir malcolm ripkind has been speaking to the bbc. >> sir malcolm ripkind, you've been accusednce as a politician to benefit a private company. was that appropriate? >> well it has been accepted by parliament and by our law for many, many years, that members of parliament as long as they declare any outside business interest in the register are free to take other employment. and what i do 70 75% of my time, is my parliamentary work. 20 25% of most are a number of business interests i have. and i think it's very important that that should be possible. i know the labor party doesn't like it and some other, many other people perhaps don't believe that mps should have second jobs but, you know, there's a large body of public opinion that thinks differently. we don't want to see full-time politicians who know nothing about the rest of the world and actually rather like knowing that members of parliament have interest in other parts of the economy. >> but isn't it different as an mv having an outside interest like a previous profession like a doctor or a lawyer and this sense of an m