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This week we uncovered how senior MPs including Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick and Darren Jones are claiming tens of thousands of pounds a year in taxpayer-funded rent expenses while also calling for, or implementing, cuts to benefits for the poorest.
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Labour’s Darren Jones, the current chief secretary to the prime minister, was second in command at the Treasury while it drove through cuts to winter fuel payments and housing benefit for private renters and demanded the Department for Work and Pensions make sweeping cuts to disability benefits. While helping push this agenda of cutting benefits for some of the poorest people in the country, Jones claimed £42,176.08 in total between rent and hotel bills.
Official figures show millionaire MPs billing the public for rents far above the national average, with some claiming more in rent expenses than many of their constituents earn in a year. They also reveal that Reform MP Lee Anderson, who has relentlessly attacked people on benefits, claims more in taxpayer-funded hotel bills than any other MP in England. Jones and Anderson are just two of many MPs billing the public.
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