MP's 'should be visible in their constituencies and available to help... If they're not doing that, they're not doing their job.'

This is the warning which has come from Downing Street after it emerged that a former Tory Conservative Cabinet minister earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, and spent weeks working as a lawyer in the Caribbean, while Parliament was sitting.

Sir Geoffrey Cox was advising the British Virgin Islands in a corruption probe being conducted by the British government.

Sky's Deputy Political Editor Sam Coates reports.

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