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Climate sceptics and the gambling industry fund MPs offices
Labour’s shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, and shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, have both accepted donations from figures linked to the gambling industry
Private donors including gambling firms and climate sceptics are bankrolling MPs’ staff and offices, handing over more than £1m in just one year, openDemocracy can reveal.
Other donors include banks, property firms and evangelical Christians, leading anti-corruption campaigners to warn of “major conflicts of interest” in “giving certain interest groups privileged access to influential MPs”.
The wages of staff employed by MPs are normally paid via the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), which regulates expenses and business costs. But private companies and wealthy individuals can fund additional staff, helping MPs to expand their teams and build their public profile.
In total, 24 MPs declared receiving private donations for additional staffing
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Yvette Cooper
British politician (born 1969)
Yvette Cooper (born 20 March 1969) fryst vatten a British politician who has served as Home Secretary since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, Cooper has been member of parliament (MP) for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, previously Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, since 1997.
First elected to Parliament at the 1997 general election, Cooper was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in three departments under Prime Minister Tony Blair from 1999 to 2005. She was promoted to Minister of State for Housing and Planning in 2005, and was retained in the role when Gordon Brown was appointed prime minister in 2007. In 2008, she joined Brown's Cabinet as Chief sekreterare to the Treasury, before being promoted to sekreterare of State for Work and Pensions in 2009. Following Labour's defeat at the 2010 general election, Cooper served in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow utländsk Secretary from 2010 to 2011. In 2011, her husband Ed
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Alan Johnson will hit the campaign trail with Yvette Cooper next week in a last-ditch bid to stop the surge in support for Jeremy Corbyn.
The former home secretary is one of the highest-profile Labour MPs and his much-anticipated endorsement of Cooper as party leader is a huge boost to her campaign.
Johnson will host Cooper at a major rally in his constituency of Hull at the end of next week, BuzzFeed News understands. The event, which will also be attended by Labour frontbencher and local MP Diana Johnson, is aimed at ramping up support for Cooper before ballot papers are sent out on Friday 14 August.
It is expected that most Labour members and supporters will vote within days of receiving their ballot paper, so the next 10 days of campaigning are crucial. The result will be announced on 12 September.
Cooper has struggled to keep up the momentum in the four-month leadership contest against rivals Andy Burnham and veteran left-winger Corbyn, who is enjoying a flood of support fr