If this had been the Tories (3)

According to The Register

Stephen Ladyman, the former UK transport minister, is now working as an adviser to a traffic-data company.
The MP, who stepped down from his ministerial post last year following the departure of Tony Blair but remains in Parliament, says in the Register of Members' Interests that he receives from £10,000 to £15,000 pa from ITIS Holdings plc. ITIS uses data from various sources to maintain its national traffic-flow database, which produces journey-time forecasts, blackspot updates and so on.

In the 80's and 90's Labour would have been apoplectic, but is OK now because:

Ladyman undertook not to conduct lobbying of the British government for one year when he stood down from the DfT, and this period will not expire until June. However, he considers himself at liberty to help ITIS deal with European and continental authorities, telling the Times that:
"I know quite a lot of the transport ministers around Europe..."

And I'm sure that when he bumps in to his mates around Westminster he won't dream of mentioning what he does or how he could help them. As for the EU connection, given they pay people to lobby them I suppose we shouldn't see anything wrong here, he may as well be doing something useful and trying to win contracts for the UK from the grat pork barrel in Brussels.

But all that is really just a side show because the real long term goal has to be this golden egg:

The broadsheet saw the Ladyman-ITIS payments as a sign that UK national road-pricing is imminent.

Of course because it a Labour MP doing all this there is no hint of impropriety at all.

Someone pass me a clothes peg, it getting too smelly round here.