Angela Rayner scooped over £800 worth of hospitality while partying in the DJ booth of an Ibiza superclub.
The Deputy Prime Minister declared she received £836 worth of hospitality for a “visit to (a) DJ booth” at nightclub Hi Ibiza in the latest register of MPs’ financial interests.
The visit was paid for by Ayita LLC, which is the agent of DJ Fisher, who she was filmed dancing with in footage of the event on August 29.
Footage of the evening was shared on social media.
The MP for Ashton-under-Lyne was filmed jumping and dancing behind DJ decks with Fisher and former The Big Breakfast host Denise Van Outen as smoke cannons erupted at the venue.
Rayner wore a red dress as she danced with the Australian music producer, singing along to a dance remix of Gotye’s 2011 smash hit “Somebody That I Used to Know.”
After some criticised the 44-yerar-old over the video, she told Sky News: “I take my job really seriously, and I’m always in parliament doing what needs to be done. You’ve got to have downtime… I’m working class, I like a dance.”
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SNP demands Reeves ditch bedroom tax
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been urged to scrap the so-called bedroom tax at this month’s Budget.
The SNP has pushed the Government to move on the issue, which sees cash deducted from benefits if the recipient has a spare room in their home.
The Scottish Government has attempted to mitigate the impacts of the initiative north of the border in recent years through discretionary housing payments.
SNP deputy Westminster leader Pete Wishart said: “Thousands of low-income families across Scotland and the UK are being pushed into poverty by punitive Labour Government policies like the bedroom tax.
“Voters in Scotland were promised change but so far all they have seen is Labour Government ministers lining their own pockets with more than £800,000 of freebies, while imposing painful austerity cuts on the rest of us.”
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Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson
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The BBC has cancelled an interview with Boris Johnson after presenter Laura Kuenssberg accidentally sent the former prime minister her briefing notes.
Kuenssberg, presenter of the BBC’s Sunday political interview show, said she sent Johnson the notes “in a message meant for my team.”
The BBC’s political editor between 2015 and 2022 said it was “embarrassing and disappointing”, adding the error meant it was “not right for the interview to go ahead.”