{"id":459724,"date":"2026-03-06T00:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459724\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T00:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:02:08","slug":"labour-mp-voluntarily-suspends-herself-amid-china-spy-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459724\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour MP &#8216;voluntarily suspends herself&#8217; amid China spy probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following Taylor&#8217;s arrest, Reid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/election\/2024\/uk\/constituencies\/S14000077\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">elected to the East Kilbride and Strathaven seat in 2024<\/a>, said she had never been to China, nor spoken on any China-related matters in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Taylor, a former advisor to Welsh Labour politicians, ran as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c7955ewj7gwo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the party&#8217;s candidate<\/a> to become North Wales police and crime commissioner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/25907990.joani-reid-company-received-20k-loans-husband\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Herald, external<\/a> newspaper reported Reid&#8217;s consultancy company, Reid Strategy Limited, had received more than \u00a323,000 in interest-free loans from two of Taylor&#8217;s businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Taylor, meanwhile, was paid more than \u00a3600,000 by a now-wound up construction firm, Moblake, in the form of an interest-free loan with no repayment terms and paid a further \u00a3300,000 in dividends and \u00a330,000 in an interest-free loan by PR and communications consultancy Earthcott since 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by either spouse in relation to these transactions reported to Companies House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following Taylor&#8217;s arrest, Reid, elected to the East Kilbride and Strathaven seat in 2024, said she had never&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-459724","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\/459724","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=459724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}