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The current register of MPs’ interests show Labour’s top recipients of these donations include shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves (£279,000), shadow health secretary Wes Streeting (£133,000), shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper (£71,000) and shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson (£42,000). The donations favour the right of the party and bring controversial donors into apparently more direct contact with policymakers.
Last year Reeves accepted £10,000 from Richard Flint “to support the shadow chancellor’s office.” Flint was a director of Sky Betting, a gambling firm fined £1 million when he was in charge for failing to protect vulnerable gamblers. He is currently a director of Flutter PLC, the gambling giant owner of Sky Betting, Paddy Power and other betting brands. Flint was a former Lib Dem donor.
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