Ed Miliband has attempted to put pressure on David Cameron to ban MPs from second jobs, offering a deal on paid trade union officials.
The Labour leader called on the Prime Minister to "restore the reputation of the House" following the cash-for-access revelations about Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw during angry exchanges at Prime Minister's Questions.
Mr Miliband has forced a vote on his proposals banning MPs holding outside directorships and consultancies in the House of Commons later today.
Mr Cameron defended the right of MPs to do second jobs in addition to their £67,000-a-year MP role saying it was good to have politicians with other interests.
He criticised Mr Miliband's proposals saying they would allow paid trade union officials to be MPs but not those running a family business.
However, Mr Miliband offered to make a deal to include paid trade union officials, although there are currently no MPs in this situation.
The Labour leader said: "But what is in the motion today is something very specific which is being a paid director or a paid consultant. I have said from this Despatch Box we will also ban people being a paid trade union official, the offer you made to me, I repeat the offer to you.
"Let's get it done, let's agree this to restore the reputation of this House.
"Yes or no?"
Mr Cameron pointed out that it was possible to have two jobs but added he spent more time on his duties as PM than on work linked to his seat in Witney, Oxfordshire.
He said: "We have practising doctors in this House, we have practising dentists, we have people who take part serving our country in Afghanistan or Iraq and we do have people who run family businesses or have other interests.
"What you want is a Parliament where people can come and share their experience and make some points instead of just having a whole lot of trade union-sponsored ciphers."
Mr Miliband highlighted comments made by Mr Cameron in 2009 when he said in an interview: "Double-jobbing MPs won't get a look-in when I'm in charge."
The row over second jobs comes on a day when figures from the Office for National Statistics show an increasing number of people were having to juggle zero-hours contracts to make ends meet.
Speaker John Bercow had to call for calm a number of times including to allow the Labour MP Rushanara Ali to ask a question about the three schoolgirls who fled the UK for Syria.
Mr Bercow told Sky News earlier that he took some of the blame for the bad behaviour at Prime Minister's Questions.
There has been increasing criticism of the format of "Punch and Judy" politics and calls for the sessions to be reformed.
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