Taylor Swift tickets, clothes and choppers: MPs’ Register of Interests

Evening Standard

The first MPs’ Register of Interests for the new parliament was released on Friday, where members must list any donations, gifts and hospitality they have received. It shows that Sir Keir received four hospitality tickets worth £4,000 to see Taylor Swift perform at the O2 in June. The VIP seats came courtesy of the Premier League, who are no doubt pleased to have a football-mad PM. In the last year Starmer has accepted over £18,500 worth of free tickets to see his beloved Arsenal play. Meanwhile British clothing brand ME+EM was pronounced “the go-to label” for Labour women this summer after Victoria Starmer and Angela Rayner wore an assortment of their power suits and dresses. It turns out that the brand sent Rayner £2,230 worth of free clothes at the end of June. Reform leader Nigel Farage is known for living the good life and has various income streams to supplement his MP’s salary. As well as being paid £97,928 a month by GB News, Farage makes around £16,000 a month by recording personalised video messages on Cameo. He has also revealed that he is a member of the exclusive club 5 Hertford Street, the Tory watering hole beloved by Nadine Dorries and Liz Truss.

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00:00£4,000 Taylor Swift tickets, helicopter rides and even a few snappy suits.

00:06Here's a breakdown of the latest MPs freebies and side hustles

00:10as the new government's Register of Interest is published.

00:15The Prime Minister registered a fair few freebies from the Premier League,

00:19including £18,500 worth of free tickets to see his beloved team Arsenal play,

00:25as well as £4,000 worth of VIP tickets to see Taylor Swift.

00:31Angela Rayner can put some of her snappy dressing down to me and M.

00:36She registered an interest of £2,230 worth of free clothes from the brand.

00:43Reform leader Nigel Farage gets almost £100,000 a month for his show on GB News,

00:49but he also makes quite the killing every month making £16,000 or around that

00:55by making personalised video messages on the app Cameo.

00:59Jess Phillips, the Labour MP, also cashing in on some broadcasting,

01:03making £8,364 from Sky for co-presenting their Electoral Dysfunction podcast.

01:11And finally, Rishi Sunak, the former Prime Minister,

01:14made sure he travelled in style this year with helicopter flights worth £11,500.

01:22All paid for by the Tory donor Richard Harpin.

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