Labour being ' like Farage but much worse '
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UK MPs must register financial interests that could reasonably be seen as influencing their parliamentary work in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests (RMFI). The rules, set out in the House of Commons Code of Conduct, require registration of donations and support above £1,500 (or multiple donations over £500 from the same source in a year), gifts/benefits/hospitality over £300, certain employment and earnings, overseas visits, and other categories. New MPs must also register relevant benefits received in the 12 months before election. Changes must usually be registered within 28 days. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards oversees this; some donations are also reported to the Electoral Commission under party funding rules.
A lot of Labour MPs failed to declare, but the Commissioner for Standards asked them to make a public apology and move forward, as nothing happened in the first place. We are going to list every Labour MP who has DECLARED or NOT DECLARED their extra earnings, which are known as 'gifts' to some people.
All proof can be found via newspapers or the Commissioner for Standards public information.
Heidi Alexander - (Labour MP for Swindon South, Transport Secretary)
Alexander failed to declare a £15,000 donation to her via her constituency from OPD Group Limited during the election campaign (an apparent breach of electoral law by the party). She had declared it in her MPs’ register, but the party did not report it to the Electoral Commission. This was attributed to an “administrative error” by Labour.
Wes Streeting - (Labour MP for IIford North, Defence Secretary)
Wes Streeting received thousands of pounds worth of donations linked to one of the worlds most notorious crypto fraudsters, it has been revealed, He also had deep connections with a campaign group Labour Together.
We released a full ' Streeting Files ' then can be found here
Rachel Reeves - (Labour MP for Leeds West and former Chancellor of the Exchequer)
Rachel Reeves Labour MP and former Chancellor of the Exchequer failed to declare transfers and cash donations of £30,000 from Alison Wedgwood (Oct 2025), £15,000+ from others like David Sainsbury, and larger sums from figures such as Sir Victor Blank (£175,000 reported in some coverage). Also “in kind support” from lord Ali £7,500 from donors like Lord Alli), event costs, and more. One source notes ~25 donations declared by Sept 2024, with ~£163k cash and ~£183k in-kind. All this was final declared mid this year. She was never investigated by UK’s Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.
David Lammy - (Labour MP for Tottenham and former Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Secretary)
Lammy in 2022, while serving as shadow foreign secretary, was investigated by the PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER FOR STANDARDS (Kathryn Stone) and found to have breached the MPs’ Code of Conduct. He failed to register 16 interests (including earnings, gifts, benefits, and hospitality) within the required 28-day period. These were valued at over £35,000 in total. Examples included payments for speeches (e.g., one in the US about the invasion of Ukraine and another from the Canary Wharf Group worth £3,280), tickets to American football and boxing matches, and other hospitality this was from tax payers money. The commissioner concluded there was no deliberate intention to MISLEAD, but still ruled it a breach of the rules. No further sanctions were applied beyond the finding and apology had to be issued by him.
Chris Bryant- (Labour MP for Rhondda and Ogmore and Secretary for Northern Ireland)
Bryant failed to declare claimed expenses of £35,350 in 2012/13 and 2013/14 to rent a London flat - despite already owning a penthouse in London. He bought the property in 2005, claiming around £1,000 a month in mortgage claims. But when the rules changed he let it out. Estate agent brochures show the two-bed apartment with a private lift and porter has since been marketed for rent for around £3,000 a month. He was also failed to declare in an overseas visit on Poland. in 2021, he had to make a late registration (nearly two years after the event) for an overseas visit to Poland in 2019. He was investigated by the parliamentary commission but had to give an apology for his actions. As former chair of the Commons Standards Committee, he has been vocal about transparency rules for others.
He also took a photo in his boxes and it was leaked by Guido Fawkes causing another scandal for him.
This old image has circulated online for years but is low-resolution, dated, and not something easily or appropriately hosted in modern search results as of Labour online safety bill we have put it below BUT it wont be posted in search engines (many archives avoid it due to context).
Recent image searches mostly return his official portraits or unrelated photos instead.
Shabana Mahmood - (Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood and Home Secretary)
The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has received £137,000 in donations from Labour Together, whose money derives in large part from known Israel lobbyist Trevor Chinn. Labour Together has been funded in large part by donations from Trevor Chinn along with Martin Taylor and other wealthy backers, with Chinn contributing hundreds of thousands of pounds over multiple years. Trevor Chinn is a longtime supporter of pro-Israel causes, including funding Labour Friends of Israel, serving on BICOM's executive, and leading the United Jewish Israel Appeal.
Josh Simons - (Former MP for Makerfield)
Josh Simons former MP for Makerfield who stepped down for the Former Mayor of Manchester now the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Andy Burnham received gifts of £1,250 on 21 October 25 and 4 December 2025 from Trevor Chinn, a longstanding Labour donor.
Amanda Martin - (Labour MP for Portsmouth)
Amanda Martin has recently called out the leader of Reform and the MP for Clacton, Nigel Farage for not “declaring his earnings and gifts”. Amanda received £5,000 from Abdul Sattar Shere-Mohammod (convicted of actual bodily harm in 2022 and expelled from Labour) for her 2024 Portsmouth North election campaign, matching the post’s core claim of a donation from a convicted criminal same as Nigel but where is the media and left now ? She declared the donation in the parliamentary register and was in the process of returning it along with other affected Labour MPs after the story broke in August 2025.
Lord Sainsbury - (Former Labour Donor and Lord)
Twenty years ago, Lord Sainsbury gave Labour millions, got a peerage and a ministerial job, failed to disclose a £2m loan, apologised and carried on giving. £18.5 million and counting.
Cayman Islands - (Raised and donated to Labour UK)
Cayman Islands hedge fund donated £4 million to Labour just days after the election was called. The party accepted it right before the new rules requiring weekly donations declarations came into force. It was declared after the general election
Jas Athwal - (Labour MP for IIford South)
He has declared 18 properties, including 15 residential rentals and 3 commercial properties, making him the MP with the largest declared property portfolio in the House of Commons.
Athwal has called multiple times for Farage to be investigated for his ' multiple properties '
Jeremy Corbyn - (Former Labour MP for Islington North, now Your Party)
Corbyn in 2019 CND-funded trip to New York.
Corbyn apologised “unreservedly” after failing to register a trip paid for by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards ruled it a breach of rules on declaring gifts/benefits/hospitality. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards asked Corbyn to do a formal apology
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2021 investigation into legal support: He was investigated by the parliamentary sleaze watchdog over allegations he failed to properly declare financial/legal support (related to defamation cases or similar) The commission alleged failure to declare legal support was not upheld as a breach. -//- In 2015 Palestinian group fundraising dinner where some cheques reportedly bounced or were not properly handled/declared at the time.
The commission give no formal action or upheld breach by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards (or major sanctions from the Electoral Commission) resulted from the 2015 Friends of Al-Aqsa fundraising dinner incident.
Angela Rayner - (Labour MP for Ashton - Under - Lyme and Former Deputy Leader)
Angela Rayner has received multiple declared donations and gifts, most notably from Labour peer and donor Lord Waheed Alli (also referred to as Waheed Alli), which featured in the 2024 freebies controversy. These were registered on the Register of Members’ Financial Interests (RMFI), with some later clarifications.Key donations/gifts from Lord Alli
£3,550 in work clothes (in-kind donation): Received 15 June 2024. Initially registered as a “donation in kind for undertaking parliamentary duties”; later updated to specify “work clothes for use while undertaking my duties.” Declared within the required timeframe.
Cash support for her role as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party:
£8,500 (received/accepted 6 October 2023).
£8,250 (21 March 2024).
£900 (3 April 2024).
New York apartment use: Accommodation for five nights (29 December 2023 – 2 January 2024), estimated value £1,250. Declared as a personal holiday (she paid her own flights). She said she registered it for transparency because Alli had previously donated to her. There was separate reporting that former MP Sam Tarry also stayed; Rayner stated she did not believe this required further declaration under the rules.
Earlier: £50,000 (via Angela Rayner Ltd) for her 2020 campaign to become Deputy Leader.
Reporting has put the overall value of Alli’s support to Rayner (cash + benefits, 2020–2024) in the region of £70,000+.Other notable declared items (examples)
Clothing from the brand ME+EM: £2,230 (in-kind, received around late June 2024).
Staff support from Labour Together Limited: Provision of a member of staff (value £31,800) from January to July 2024, supporting her roles at the time.
Larger recent support (2025–2026, often for the “Office of Angela Rayner Limited” staffing/running costs): Multiple payments including £50,000 instalments from Refrigeration House Limited (Oldham-based company), plus sums such as £25,000 from individuals (e.g., Ashley Mitchell, Soha Riyadh Tawfiq Alsadek) and smaller amounts from others such as Richard Greer and Trevor Chinn. Digital/comms support from 89UP Ltd has also been registered (in-kind values in the thousands).
Yvette Cooper - (Labour MP for Pontefract and Castleford and Health Secretary)
Yvette Cooper (Labour MP for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley; long-serving MP since 1997, previously Shadow Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary) has substantial declared financial interests on the Register of Members’ Financial Interests (RMFI), dominated by donations and support for staffing/office costs rather than personal gifts or freebies of the type seen with some other senior Labour figures.
Recent tracker totals (examples)
One aggregator (drawing on the July 2026 register) shows a total declared value of roughly £405,500, broken down approximately as:
Donations/support: ~£393,400
Income/earnings: ~£5,100
Gifts: ~£5,900
Visits: ~£1,000
Longer-term cumulative figures across her career (especially donations and support) run into seven figures in some databases.
Major declared donations and support
Key large items include:
Gary Lubner: £210,000 (to the central Labour Party) to fund three additional members of staff for her office over 18 months (registered around April 2024).
Labour Together Limited:
Provision of a staff member to support her role as Shadow Home Secretary (value ~£79,469 for roughly one year from December 2023).
Research services (value £33,750, January–July 2024).
Combined support from the group has been summarised in the £80,000–£110,000+ range in reporting.
Peter Hearn and linked companies (MPM Connect Ltd and OPD Group Ltd): Multiple payments over years for office staffing costs. Cumulative support linked to Hearn/his firms has been reported in the hundreds of thousands (including earlier sums for staff hire). These companies have recruitment/healthcare-related connections noted in some coverage; Cooper’s team has stated the money funded office staff and was fully declared and compliant.
Barbara Follett (sometimes with Ken Follett): Repeated support for staffing and conference accommodation (e.g., £2,350 for staff accommodation at the 2025 Labour Party conference; earlier contributions for office costs).
Anthony Doyle: Sums such as £8,000–£10,000 for office or campaign support.
Smaller or ongoing items: Book royalty payments (used to fund staffing), occasional hospitality, and local/campaign support.
Gifts and otherHer declared gifts/hospitality are relatively modest compared with some cabinet colleagues (examples include conference-related staff accommodation from Barbara Follett and smaller items). There is no prominent record of clothing gifts from Lord Alli of the kind that featured heavily for Starmer, Rayner and Reeves in the 2024 freebies controversy.
Context
These entries appear as properly registered support for parliamentary/office activities. No major personal “undeclared” scandals specific to Cooper feature in the same way as the late or clarified Alli clothing declarations or the organisational Labour Together reporting failures. Some reporting has highlighted the volume of staffing support from donors with private-sector (including healthcare-linked) ties, particularly after her moves into senior roles.
Figures change with each RMFI update. For the complete current list of her entries, check the official parliamentary Register of Members’ Financial Interests (searchable by name) or aggregators such as MPFolio or MPData that pull from it.
Yuan Yang - (Labour MP for Earley and Woodley)
Yuan Yang is the Labour MP for Earley and Woodley (elected July 2024). She is the first Chinese-born Briton elected to the UK Parliament. Her background is as an economist and journalist; she has published a book (Private Revolutions).Declared financial interests (RMFI overview)Aggregators and register snapshots show significant declared support, particularly campaign and constituency-related donations shortly after her election, plus ongoing book-related earnings. One earlier tracker placed her among higher-declared Labour MPs (figures in the low-to-mid hundreds of thousands depending on the period and categories included). Interests are updated regularly on the official Register.Key donations and supportMany are framed as support for political activities, campaigning, building incumbency, or community organising projects in her constituency:
Labour Together: £10,000 (registered around July 2024).
Unite the Union: £5,000.
Gary Lubner: £5,000.
Martin Taylor: £20,000.
Eric Lonergan: Multiple payments (examples include £10,000, £5,000 and further sums for constituency/parliamentary support or “building incumbency”).
Cressida Pollock: £10,000.
Daniel Luhde-Thompson: £10,000 (support for political activities).
Thomas Andrew Grand: £30,000 (July 2026) — to fund a community organising pilot for constituents in Earley and Woodley.
Ecotricity Group Ltd: £15,000 (June 2026) — for a community organising project benefiting constituents.
Other early post-election donations included sums from David Kogan Ltd and individuals, contributing to a cash total of around £92,000 in one September 2024 snapshot of her then-declared support.
Employment and earnings
Book-related: Writing and publishing advances/royalties via RCW Literary Agency (and ultimate publishers such as Viking Penguin). Notable payments include ~£26,600 in July 2024 and later advances (e.g., figures in the £30,000+ range reported in subsequent periods). These are registered under employment/earnings.
Gifts, hospitality and visits
Relatively modest: Reimbursements/hospitality linked to literary events (e.g., Edinburgh Book Festival — hotel accommodation and train travel).
Overseas visit example: Participation in the IMF’s Young Parliamentarians programme in Washington DC (flights and accommodation valued at around £2,500).
No high-profile personal freebies controversies (such as the Lord Alli clothing gifts associated with some other senior Labour figures) appear in reporting on her. Her declared support is predominantly campaign, office/political activity, and constituency-focused, alongside literary income
.All the above are from public declarations on the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. For the complete and most up-to-date list of every entry, check the official parliamentary register (searchable by name on members.parliament.uk) or aggregators that pull from it.
Andrew Lewin - (Labour MP for Welwyn Hatfield)
Andrew Lewin is the Labour MP for Welwyn Hatfield (elected July 2024).
Declared financial interests overview.
His Register of Members’ Financial Interests (RMFI) entries centre on campaign support from the 2024 election period and substantial ongoing in-kind support linked to his role as Chair of the UK Trade and Business Commission. One aggregator has shown total declared interests in the region of £240,000+ (heavily weighted toward donations/support). Figures update with each register publication.
Key campaign/election support (mainly 2024)
Declared around the time of his election (many registered July 2024):
Labour Together Ltd: £10,000 (to support his parliamentary campaign).
Neil Goulden: £10,000 (parliamentary campaign support).
Nicholas McCowan: £2,500 (and later additional smaller private donations, e.g. £1,500 in 2026, for campaigning work).
Welwyn Hatfield Labour Council Group: £6,000 (local campaigning, including local and general elections) plus smaller amounts.
UNISON: £1,000.
Other smaller individual and local contributions.
An early post-election snapshot of his cash donations totalled around £45,800.Ongoing support from Best for Britain Ltd
As Chair (unpaid) of the UK Trade and Business Commission, he has repeatedly declared estimated in-kind support from Best for Britain Ltd covering secretariat services, meeting rooms/catering, research, graphic design, printing, transcription and communications for the Commission. Examples of quarterly/period estimates include:
Around £32,000–£35,000+ for various 2025–2026 periods (e.g. £34,469.82 for Oct–Dec 2025; £35,332.32 for Jan–Mar 2026; similar earlier and later amounts).
Smaller related amounts and a Brussels visit (transport, accommodation and meals, estimated ~£582 in April 2025) for Commission-related meetings promoting UK-EU relations.
This forms the bulk of his higher declared totals.
Employment and other
Former Director of Communications at Clarion Housing Group (role ended around the 2024 election; monthly remuneration of ~£6,180 declared until mid-July 2024).
Unpaid role as Chair of the UK Trade & Business Commission (registered from December 2024).
No high-profile personal gifts or freebies controversies (such as the clothing donations linked to Lord Alli for some other Labour figures) appear in the available records. The declared support is primarily campaign-related and tied to his Commission role.All of the above are public declarations. For the complete current list, check the official parliamentary Register of Members’ Financial Interests (searchable by name) or aggregators that draw from it.
Clive Lewis - (Labour MP for Norwich South)
Clive Lewis is the Labour MP for Norwich South (elected 2015; continuous service since then). He is generally associated with the left of the party.
Declared financial interests overview
Aggregators drawing from the Register of Members’ Financial Interests (RMFI) show total declared values in the region of £218,000 in one recent snapshot (donations/support ~£204,000; smaller amounts for income, gifts and visits). Interests remain on the register for 12 months after ending, so cumulative figures reflect ongoing and recent entries.Key donations and support
Much of the support is in-kind staffing or campaign/political activity assistance, often channelled through progressive organisations:
Compass – Together for a Good Society Ltd: Multiple periods of staff support for parliamentary campaigns and activities. Examples include an estimated £26,210 (April 2026–April 2027) and earlier amounts such as ~£13,000–£14,000 for shorter periods. Also smaller hospitality/reimbursements.
Gideon Simeloff: £30,000 (paid to Compass to fund a staff member for his office for roughly one year; registered around late 2023/early 2024).
Brian Eno: £5,000 (for use in Norwich South).
Trade unions: Sums from Unison, Unite and others (e.g., for leaflets or campaigning, typically a few thousand pounds each).
Small Axe Communications Ltd: In-kind staff/communications support (several thousand pounds across entries).
Good Law Project Ltd: Pro bono support (e.g., estimated £500 for a Charity Commission complaint) and related crowdfunder activity.
Other smaller or ad-hoc contributions, plus crowdfunders run via his company (Toussaint Ventures Ltd) to support political activities (threshold-meeting donations registered under Category 2).
Employment, earnings and other interests
Occasional media work: articles (e.g., Guardian), podcasts, radio appearances (payments typically hundreds of pounds).
Shareholdings: Over 15% in Toussaint Ventures Ltd (provides support for his political campaigning and activities); he is also an unpaid director.
Land/property: Half-share in a residential property in Norwich (registered since 2018/2019).
Miscellaneous/unpaid roles: Chair of the British Caribbean Association (late registration later rectified); Vice Chair of the Climate and Nature Crisis Caucus (secretariat by Zero Hour Ltd); Executive Committee member of the British Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union; crowdfunder arrangements.
Gifts, hospitality and visits
Modest and mostly linked to speaking engagements:
Festival/summit tickets or passes (e.g., Blue Earth Summit, Green Gathering, Glastonbury Speakers Forum, Edinburgh Fringe hospitality).
Travel/accommodation reimbursements.
Overseas visit example: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung support for a parliamentarians’ forum in Spain (~£1,050 for flights, hotel, etc.).
No high-profile personal freebies of the type associated with Lord Alli (clothing etc.) appear in the records for him. Support tends to come from progressive campaign groups, individuals and unions rather than the large Starmer-era donors prominent in some other MPs’ registers.There has been at least one late-registration rectification (British Caribbean Association chairmanship) handled via the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards process. A separate inquiry into a related crowdfunder found no individual donations exceeding the registration threshold.All figures are from public RMFI declarations. For the full, current list of every entry, consult the official parliamentary Register of Members’ Financial Interests (searchable by name on members.parliament.uk) or reliable aggregators that update from it.
John Healey - (Labour MP for Rawmarsh and Conisbrough and Chancellor of the Exchequer)
John Healey is the Labour MP for Rawmarsh and Conisbrough (continuous service since 1997). He served as Defence Secretary from July 2024 to June 2026 and was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer on 20 July 2026.
Current Register of Members’ Financial Interests (RMFI)
As of the most recent available official parliamentary pages (mid-August 2026), there are no current registered interests listed for him in the main categories viewed. Interests stay on the register for 12 months after they end, so many earlier declarations have now dropped off.
Notable earlier declared support (mainly 2023–2024)
These were the main items that appeared while he was Shadow Defence Secretary and in the period around the 2024 election:
Labour Together: Approximately £52,000–£53,000 in total support for his Shadow Defence Secretary role. This included £39,216.74 (registered May 2024) plus £13,723.56 (May–early July 2024, related to the employment of a staff member).
Individuals: Nigel Grinyer (£5,000 to the Constituency Labour Party for local campaigning; earlier £15,000 for the shadow role) and Mark Gill (£5,000 to the CLP).
Community Trade Union: £3,000 (to the CLP for local campaigning).
These formed the bulk of higher totals shown in some 2024–2025 aggregators (around £139,000 in one snapshot, almost entirely donations/support).
Other interests that have appeared
Land and property: Temporary declaration of a one-third share in a two-bedroom residential apartment in Hove (following his mother’s death; probate January 2025, total value noted around £180,000). Later updated to confirm he no longer held ownership (passed to siblings).
Miscellaneous unpaid roles: Chair of Rotherham 9th Scouts Group; member of the Goldthorpe Towns Fund Board; Executive Committee member of the British American Parliamentary Group. (Ministers’ interests lists have also noted related community and parliamentary group roles.)
No major personal gifts, clothing freebies, or high-profile undeclared controversies of the type associated with some other senior Labour figures appear in the records for him. Declared support centred on staffing and campaign assistance linked to his shadow portfolio and local work.
For the absolute latest official entries, check the parliamentary Register of Members’ Financial Interests directly (searchable by name on members.parliament.uk), as it updates regularly.
Sir Keir Starmer - (Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras and former Labour leader, Also Former Prime Minister)
Sir Keir Starmer is the Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras (elected 2015). He served as Prime Minister from July 2024 (with later transitions noted in some records).Overall declared interests
Long-term aggregators tracking the Register of Members’ Financial Interests (RMFI) show cumulative declared values exceeding £1.2 million across his parliamentary career. Approximate category breakdowns in one comprehensive tracker include:
Donations and financial support: ~£755,000
Employment and earnings: ~£312,000
Gifts, benefits and hospitality: ~£146,000
Overseas visits: ~£35,000
Recent snapshots (e.g., mid-2026) show lower active totals as older entries expire after 12 months. Some official register pages currently list limited or no high-value active interests for the same reason.
Lord Alli gifts and the 2024 freebies controversy (most prominent)Lord Waheed Alli was Starmer’s largest personal donor for gifts and hospitality. Key declared items included:
Work clothing: Initially declared £16,200 (April 2024). Additional sums of £10,000 (October 2023) and £6,000 (February 2024) — originally registered as support for the Leader of the Opposition’s private office — were later re-categorised as clothing donations-in-kind, bringing the clothing total to around £32,200.
Glasses: £2,485 (multiple pairs).
Accommodation: Approximately £20,437 (May–July 2024, during the election campaign; Starmer stated this allowed his son to study for GCSEs away from media attention at the family home).
Support for spouse (Victoria Starmer): Clothing, personal shopper and alterations valued at around £6,134 (June 2024; subject to a late declaration after advice on the rules for benefits to third parties).
These formed the core of the high-profile “freebies” row in autumn 2024. Starmer maintained he had followed the rules and sought registrar advice. He (along with Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves) later stated they would no longer accept clothing donations. Tax was paid on relevant benefits in subsequent returns. Alli faced separate scrutiny over his own Lords register entries.
Other notable gifts and hospitality
Starmer declared a high volume of hospitality, particularly:
Multiple Arsenal Football Club tickets and Directors’ Box hospitality (ongoing into 2025–2026, often valued at ~£1,000 per declaration for two people).
Other football matches, Premier League events, concerts (including Taylor Swift tickets), racing, and similar.
Earlier accommodation and event hospitality from various sources.
He has been among the highest declarers of gifts/hospitality among MPs in recent parliaments.
Other interests
Pre-parliamentary legal earnings and book copyright payments (small ongoing royalties).
Occasional other support and visits.
Ministers’ interests lists have noted items such as a let family home, pension arrangements, and honorary roles (e.g., British-American Parliamentary Group).
No major new high-value personal donation controversies of the 2024 scale appear in 2025–2026 records beyond the ongoing lower-level hospitality (mainly Arsenal). All items referenced are from public RMFI declarations and contemporaneous reporting.
For the complete and most current list of every entry, consult the official parliamentary Register of Members’ Financial Interests (searchable by name on members.parliament.uk), as it updates regularly and older interests fall off after 12 months.
Peter Prinsley - (Labour MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket)
Peter Prinsley was found by the Standards Commissioner to have broken transparency rules by failing to declare (or declaring late) an all-expenses-paid “solidarity” trip to Israel funded by Labour Friends of Israel (May 2025, value reported by others at up to ~£2,600).
He apologised, citing staff administrative error.
Cat Eccles - (Labour MP for Stourbridge)
Similar failure/late declaration of the same Israel trip as Peter; investigation was reported as ongoing at the time of coverage.
Kevin McKenna - (Labour (Co-op) MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey)
Kevin McKenna is the Labour (Co-op) MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey (elected July 2024). He is a former nurse and health policy professional who worked as a Strategy Advisor at NHS England before entering Parliament.Declared financial interests overviewHis Register of Members’ Financial Interests (RMFI) entries are relatively modest compared with many longer-serving or more senior MPs. One aggregator recorded a total declared value of around £8,000. Official register pages sometimes currently show limited or no active interests, as entries remain listed for only 12 months after they end.Key declared items
Employment and earnings: Strategy Advisor role with NHS England (ended 5 July 2024 upon election). Final payments were registered (examples include a few hundred pounds).
Donations and other support:
Homes for Britain Ltd (a housing campaign/advocacy group): Communications support provided in monthly instalments. Values declared around £400–£500 per month over several months (totals reported in the £2,800–£3,500 range). McKenna has publicly defended this as general communications support to help campaign on housing issues; a figure discrepancy was attributed to an administrative error by his team.
Overseas visits:
Labour Friends of Israel Ltd: Visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories (valued at approximately £2,600 for flights, accommodation and meals). The purpose was meetings with politicians, academics, activists and diplomats. A late declaration was attributed by a Labour spokesperson to an “administrative error.”
Results UK: Short visit to Geneva (valued at around £470) focused on global health issues (tuberculosis, malaria, HIV, immunisation and child health), as part of a cross-party delegation.
No large personal cash donations from major Labour donors (such as those prominent in senior figures’ registers), clothing freebies, or high-profile undeclared controversies appear in the available records.All details are drawn from public RMFI declarations and related reporting. For the complete and most up-to-date list, check the official parliamentary Register of Members’ Financial Interests (searchable by name on members.parliament.uk).
Lizzi Collinge - (Labour MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale)
Lizzi Collinge is the Labour MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale (elected July 2024). She previously served as a Lancashire County Councillor. Declared financial interests overviewHer Register of Members’ Financial Interests (RMFI) entries are relatively limited. Official pages in 2026 often list only a small number of active items, as earlier declarations age off after 12 months.
Key declared items
Gary Lubner: £15,000 (registered July 2024). Described as covering the costs of a political organiser, social media advertising, direct mail costs and office costs. This was support linked to her local party/campaign activities.
This donation attracted later scrutiny. Conservatives submitted a dossier to Lancashire police questioning its treatment in her electoral spending return (she reported campaign spending near the limit of ~£18,000–£20,000 without including the Lubner money, stating it had been spent before the formal campaign period began at the end of May 2024). Police reviewed the matter.
Employment and earnings: Payments as Lancashire County Councillor (examples around £1,120 for periods in July and August 2024). The role became unpaid from 30 August 2024 and was later registered under miscellaneous interests (ended May 2025).
Gifts, benefits and hospitality:
Humanists UK: Hospitality for attending/speaking at their conference/convention (examples valued at £466–£654, covering hotel, tickets, gala dinner and reception; declared in 2025 and later).
Miscellaneous: Unpaid Lancashire County Councillor role (after the paid period).
No large ongoing staffing support, clothing freebies, or high-volume hospitality of the type seen with some senior Labour figures appear in her records. The main notable item remains the £15,000 from Gary Lubner around the time of her election.All details are from public RMFI declarations and related reporting. For the complete and most current list, check the official parliamentary Register of Members’ Financial Interests (searchable by name on members.parliament.uk).
Dr Lauren Sullivan - (Labour MP for Gravesham)
Dr Lauren Sullivan is the Labour MP for Gravesham (elected July 2024). She has a background as a scientist and chemistry teacher, previously served as a local councillor, and is Chair of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology Board.Declared financial interests overviewHer Register of Members’ Financial Interests (RMFI) entries focus mainly on election campaign support from 2024, with more recent items being modest. Official register pages in 2026 list a small number of active interests.Key campaign donations and support (2024)
Gary Lubner: £15,000 (registered July 2024; support linked to her local party/campaign).
UNISON:
£9,612 from the general fund (print and support costs for the general election).
£2,000 from the South East Region (leaflet printing).
Ebbsfleet Football Club: £3,000 for the general election campaign (registered August 2024).
This was later returned in full. Reporting linked the club’s then-owners (the Al-Humaidi family) to fraud prosecutions in Kuwait. A Labour spokesperson confirmed action was taken to return the donation.
Gravesham Labour Party Properties Ltd: £4,999 for general election campaign materials.
Employment and other interests
Councillor roles: Paid positions as Gravesham Borough Councillor and Kent County Councillor (remuneration around £1,100–£2,000 per month until 1 August 2024). These continued unpaid until early 2025 and were registered under miscellaneous interests.
Gifts/benefits: Free car parking in Gravesham Borough Council car parks for constituency business (estimated value £1,564 for one year, from September 2025).
Overseas visit: Results UK-supported trip to Geneva (October 2025, value £742.72 for flights, hotel and subsistence). Purpose: meetings related to global health APPGs (TB, malaria, HIV, immunisation and child health).
Miscellaneous: Unpaid trustee of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (from October 2025).
No high-volume personal freebies, clothing gifts, or large ongoing staffing support of the type seen with some senior Labour figures appear in her records. The main points of note were the election campaign donations (particularly the later-returned Ebbsfleet sum) and standard local councillor earnings that ended after her election.All details come from public RMFI declarations and related reporting. For the complete and most up-to-date list, check the official parliamentary Register of Members’ Financial Interests (searchable by name on members.parliament.uk).
Andy Burnham - (Former Manchester Mayor and Prime Minister of the UK)
Andy Burnham served as Mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017 until mid-2026 (he later became MP for Makerfield in a by-election and, according to subsequent records, Prime Minister).
As a metro mayor he was not covered by the House of Commons Register of Members’ Financial Interests in the same way as MPs. Instead, gifts, hospitality and relevant interests were recorded on the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) / Mayor’s official register of gifts and hospitality, and campaign donations were subject to Electoral
Commission rules.
Salary and personal donations
Mayor’s salary was approximately £118,267 per year.
He publicly committed to (and reported) donating 15% of his mayoral salary to homelessness causes in Greater Manchester. He later said he would continue a similar 15% donation from his MP salary to local causes.
Gifts, hospitality and freebies (mayoral period)Reporting based on the official mayor’s register highlighted substantial hospitality, particularly in 2024–early 2026:
Totals cited in media investigations ranged from around £12,000 (over roughly two years in one analysis) to £17,000 (across 17 occasions from June 2024 to March 2026 in another).
Notable examples included:
Tickets and related costs for the Euro 2024 finals (valued in the region of £5,000).
Glastonbury Festival tickets (around £1,520 for four) plus accommodation.
Brit Awards table tickets and hospitality for himself and his wife (around £3,800 from Sony Music).
Various football matches (including Everton), concerts and other events.
He also accepted paid speaking engagements (e.g., £1,000 for a Theos lecture, which he donated to charity) and some upgraded travel.
These were declared on the mayoral gifts and hospitality register. Critics contrasted the volume with his “man of the people” image, especially while some national Labour figures were under pressure over freebies.
Campaign support and other points
Earlier mayoral election campaigns received donations and in-kind support from individuals, unions, companies and local sources (historical parliamentary register entries from his time as an MP show some of these when he was seeking the candidacy).
One reported issue involved EY3 Media, which provided campaign materials/support (valued in tens of thousands) for his mayoral bids and later received contracts worth over £260,000 from GMCA bodies. Burnham’s side stated the donations were properly declared to the monitoring officer and recorded; the contracts were awarded through formal processes.
Other coverage has examined housing-related funding decisions during his tenure (e.g., large loans via Greater Manchester housing investment vehicles), though these relate more to policy and procurement than personal gifts.
As Mayor he also made standard declarations of interests for board and decision-making purposes (including any relevant family or organisational links).Transparency for metro mayors relies on local authority-style registers rather than the full parliamentary RMFI. For the most detailed official list of his mayoral-era gifts and hospitality, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority publications and democracy portal are the primary sources. Once he
returned to Parliament the standard MP register rules applied (and some recent views of that register showed limited or no current high-value personal entries).
Burnham also wasted £100M+ of taxes payers money on Manchester's Clean Air Zone. Cameras up. Signs everywhere. Then total U-turn when voters pushed back Zero charges collected. Nothing delivered. Just virtue-signalling and waste.
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