A CONSERVATIVE MP who wants to replace Theresa May as prime minister earns money from an entrepreneur who sells staff surveillance software, the Morning Star has found.

Sir Graham Brady was chair of the powerful 1922 Committee of back-bench Tory MPs until he stood down on Friday to consider running for Downing Street.

Yesterday the Morning Star revealed that his suitability for the top job was in question after it emerged he received a lavish dinner from tobacco giant Japan Tobacco International.

Now we have found that Mr Brady receives thousands of pounds each year from a businessman whose products include employee monitoring software.

Michael Goldstone pays Mr Brady £10,000 a year to provide 12 hours of advice on “communications and marketing strategy” for his firm Snowshill Allied Holdings Ltd. The company is registered to an office in the MP’s constituency of Altrincham & Sale West.

Mr Goldstone directs several businesses from the same building, including a tech start-up called Hoozintoday Ltd.

The firm sells employee monitoring software that allows bosses to keep tabs on their staff.

Although there is no suggestion of wrongdoing, the software is unlikely to be popular among weary workers.

On its website the company takes aim at old-fashioned punch cards, suggesting customers “consider a technological solution” that will allow bosses to “check up on who’s in the office any time, anywhere.”

However, the firm also claims its software improves safety. It says: “In an emergency, if you have to evacuate the building, you can instantly check that everyone has made it out safely using the nifty in-built evacuation button.”

Mr Brady and Hoozintoday were approached for comment.