Backbench Labour MPs are keen to highlight how many of their Conservative colleagues have lucrative directorships and other well-paid jobs. But their call for a ban could backfire, as at least 32 former ministers under Tony Blair and other Labour MPs have landed sought-after jobs in the private sector in the past two years. Ending outside jobs for MPs is one proposal in a paper compiled by deputy Commons leader Helen Goodman, according to The Independent newspaper. Ms Goodman's study is understood to conclude that two thirds of Tory MPs have second jobs, 37 per cent of Liberal Democrats and 19 per cent of Labour.