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Why is Peter Hearn allowed to buy influence in the Labour Party?
Right-wing Labour MPs have been enjoying big cash injections from a millionaire who makes his money through outsourcing and ‘executive’ recruitment work — both to the detriment of the NHS, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves and shadow health secretary Wes Streeting meeting with senior staff, nurses, doctors and patients, during a visit to the Emergency Assessment Unit at Colchester Hospital in Essex

SKY NEWS is investigating money that flows around MPs in donations, second jobs and funding for all-party parliamentary groups. It’s good to see journalists “follow the money” around politics — which is something we are supposed to do, but often don’t.

Sky’s investigation highlighted and raised questions about one of the biggest blocks of donations. A company called MPM Connect is the third-biggest donor to MPs since the last election, giving £340,000 to three Labour right figures — Wes Streeting, Dan Jarvis and Yvette Cooper. The donations help run these “moderate” MPs’ offices — the cash promotes their political careers, not their luxury.

Sky is right to raise these questions — but it only really “followed the money” part of the way. While MPM Connect’s role is shadowy, it is possible to pin them down a bit more.

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