{"id":360421,"date":"2026-01-09T06:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360421\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T06:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:49:08","slug":"politics-latest-u-turn-over-business-rates-hike-for-pubs-expected-in-coming-days-sky-news-understands-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360421\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics latest: U-turn over business rates hike for pubs expected in coming days, Sky News understands | Politics News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Starmer continues to accept football ticket upgrades as Farage and Cox outside earnings are revealed\n <\/p>\n

Some MPs have continued to make tens of thousands of pounds in earnings outside their day jobs in parliament, new data shows.<\/p>\n

The House of Commons has published the latest register of MPs’ interests, covering donations and outside earnings registered over the Christmas period.<\/p>\n

Among the findings, it shows that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage made \u00a337,000 for 12 hours worth of work at GB News, where he is a presenter.<\/p>\n

He also accepted \u00a310,000 worth of accommodation and exclusive F1 passes from the government of Abu Dhabi, where he also held meetings.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Conservative MP and former attorney general Sir Geoffrey Cox earned almost \u00a350,000 for legal work – including \u00a322,100 for the Prime Minister of Mauritius.<\/p>\n

Sir Geoffrey also earned \u00a347,000 for work at consultancy firm Global Counsel.<\/p>\n

Sir Keir Starmer accepted two lots of ticket upgrades to the directors’ box at Arsenal.<\/p>\n

The prime minister has previously defended accepting the ticket upgrades, saying\u00a0it would “cost the taxpayer a fortune” in security costs<\/a>\u00a0were he to watch the games in the stands, where he is a season ticket holder.<\/p>\n

The shadow housing secretary, Sir James Cleverly, received \u00a35,950 to deliver a speech to a housing trade magazine.<\/p>\n

Angela Rayner, the former deputy prime minister, took \u00a35,000 from a Manchester-based barrister to pay for staffing costs.<\/p>\n

Former Tory chancellor Sir Jeremy Hunt made \u00a330,000 for giving a speech to a Hong Kong-based finance business.<\/p>\n

And the local party of Daisy Cooper, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, accepted \u00a320,000 from a property company.<\/p>\n

Independent MP Ayoub Khan earned \u00a31,573 for 184 hours worth of work as a Birmingham City councillor.<\/p>\n

Mr Khan is one of multiple MPs who also still serve as a local councillor.<\/p>\n

You can see the full list<\/a> on the parliamentary website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starmer continues to accept football ticket upgrades as Farage and Cox outside earnings are revealed Some MPs have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-360421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}