Video shows how former attorney general Geoffrey Cox makes £400k a year cashing in on his government experience

Video shows how former attorney general Geoffrey Cox makes £400k a year cashing in on his government experience

Video uncovered by Insider shows some of the work Tory MP Sir Geoffrey Cox does to earn his £400,000 salary in his second job as a consultant to law firm Withers. Cox joined Withers as "consultant global counsel" in September 2020, 7 months after leaving his role as the UK Attorney General. He registered his salary as £468,000 plus VAT annually for 48 hours of work a month, which works out at an hourly rate of around £813. Earlier this month, he registered a reduction in his work to 41 hours a month, for £400,000 plus VAT. Cox appears to have spent weeks at a time working for Withers from the British Virgin Islands in person, and participating in the UK parliament from thousands of miles away, . Cox has become a lightning rod for criticism after attention turned to MPs' outside jobs, . Insider unearthed some video evidence of Cox's highly-paid efforts for Withers, including a one-hour webinar for the firm's wealthy clients. . In the session, Cox reassured watchers there would be "no change to the non-dom regime", a reference to non-domiciled tax status which allows people to live in the UK without incurring tax on much of