HUGE EARNER Nigel Farage making £1.2m a year from GB News show as he’s revealed as Britain’s highest-earning MP
NIGEL Farage has been revealed as Britain’s highest-earning MP — making nearly £1.2million a year from his GB News show.
The Reform leader gets £97,928.40 a month for 32 hours work, the MPs’ Register of Interests shows.
He was also paid £16,597.22 in July for saying hello to people on Cameo video recordings.
The money is on top of his MP for Clacton salary of £91,346 a year.
Meanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer got four tickets, worth £4,000, to Taylor Swift’s Eras tour in June.
He was also gifted work clothes, worth £16,200, and multiple pairs of glasses, worth £2,485, in April.Last December, he got four Jingle Bell Ball tickets worth £800. And in May, he received four tickets to see the National Theatre’s show Nye, plus dinner worth £358.
The Arsenal season-ticket holder also received almost £20,000 worth of matchday football tickets to 12 games — the majority of which were for his team’s away days — and all included hospitality.
His deputy Angela Rayner got £2,230 worth of clothes by designer brand ME+EM in June.
And Labour peer Waheed Alli provided her a New York flat to stay in for five nights, valued at £1,250, for a holiday.Meanwhile, ex PM Rishi Sunak splurged £11,496 on helicopters in the election campaign.
Six Labour MPs were revealed to have received thousands from striking rail union AslefChief of staff Sue Gray’s son, Liam Conlon, recorded a £4,000 donation earlier this month.
And Anneliese Midgley got £1,000 in March and a further £650 in June.
The other four MPs said the donations were to help with their general election campaigns.
Last night, Nigel Farage wrote on X: “The GB News sum paid to me, and declared, includes VAT. It was paid to my company, which has significant expenses.”
A Labour spokesperson said: “All declarations are made in the usual way, in line with the rules
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