Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM.
Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison
Huge coverage of both
Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month.
Media coverage? You judge.
Nigel Farage, April 29: “This money was given to me so that I would be safe and secure for the rest of my life”.
Nigel Farage, May 14: “Frankly, it was given to me as a reward for campaigning against Brexit for 27 years.”
Which is it?
BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought £1.4m house in cash shortly after receiving £5m personal gift from crypto-billionaire Christopher Harborne.
Reform says the "offer and process" of buying the property commenced before gift. Intriguing story by @AliFortescue
BBC News at 6 cover Nigel Farage's £5,000,000 gift from a foreign based crypto billionaire
They don't mention the latest revelations from Ben Habib alleging that Farage and Johnson both previously received £1,000,000 from the foreign based billionaire
Nor mention what Ben Habib said, "The 2019 General Election was sewn up between Nigel Farage, Christopher Harborne and Boris Johnson, and it was a monetary deal, that's how I see it"
Turning back to the leader of the opposition, the PM says he and Kemi Badenoch have something in common: "Our parties both had tough results at the local elections last week, the difference is she hasn't noticed," he says
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🚨BREAKING🚨
Keir Starmer once reclined his seat on a short-haul flight.
In other news Nigel Farage has received a £5m gift, a house, helicopter flights, a Maldives trip and been accused of throwing an election for £1m.
Here's Sam Coates with more on the reclined seat scandal.
I’m hearing that Andy Burnham has purchased a meal deal at WH Smith in Euston station. Beth, Sam and Sophy are en route to ask the checkout assistant what flavour crisps he chose.
Meanwhile Nigel Farage trousered a £5m bung and didn’t declare it.
Back to the crisps story.
PM local election losses without resignation:
Thatcher 1,066
Major 2,018
Blair 818
Brown 321
Cameron 405
May 1,134
Johnson 485
Sunak 474
Hope this helps.
#elections
If we go back to this Peter Kellner chart, how should the parties be feeling about these local elections?
Lab = Disappointment
Con = Relief
Lib Dem = Relief
Ref = Disaster
Green = Disappointment
1/8 My home town of Birmingham will get a lot of negative publicity over the coming days. The city has some major problems, it is true, but here's a few more positive facts and figures. These often get hidden by boundary or industrial structure issues.