{"id":411715,"date":"2026-02-06T20:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411715\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T20:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:26:17","slug":"commons-shells-out-taxpayer-cash-for-mps-sky-sports-subscriptions-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411715\/","title":{"rendered":"Commons Shells Out Taxpayer Cash for MPs&#8217; Sky Sports Subscriptions \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Commons is paying over a grand a year for Sky Sports to play on its annunciator screens. And still Starmer takes the free box Arsenal tickets\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The taxpayer bill over the last three years has ticked up:<\/p>\n<p>2023\/24 \u00a31,099<br \/>\n2024\/25 \u00a31,207<br \/>\n2025\/26 \u00a31,307<\/p>\n<p>Guido is told\u00a0\u201cthe House does not have any other TV subscriptions for annunciators on the estate, barring the Sky Sports subscription.\u201d Give MPs their EastEnders\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The House of Commons is paying over a grand a year for Sky Sports to play on its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,76231,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-411715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-taxpayer","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411715","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=411715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}