Chris Bryant has been the Labour MP for Rhondda and Ogmore since 2001 and is currently Minister For Trade.
Chris was privately educated at Cheltenham College and trained to be a Church of England priest. He later worked for the @BBC. Chris was once a member of the Conservative Party.
During the expenses scandal of 2009, Chris was found to have ‘flipped’ his second home twice and claimed up to £92,000 in stamp duty, service charges, mortagage interest charges and other fees on his expenses.
Chris is a member of the lobby organisation Labour Friends of Israel and was involved in the plots, coups and leadership bids aimed at taking down Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of The Labour Party.
In February 2024, Chris was heavily involved with Keir Starmer and @LindsayHoyle_MP in derailing the @theSNP ‘s motion for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. MP @KirstySNP Blackman said that Chris’ involvement and ‘damning revelations (showed that) Keir Starmer pulled every dirty trick in the Westminster book to wreck the SNP’s vote on an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.’
It has just been revealed (April, 2026), that Chris, in his role as Minister for Trade, misled Parliament over the sale and use of military aircraft parts to Israel. This occurred during his appearance before a Parliamentary Committee in September 2025.
Chris was awarded a knighthood in 2023 for his political and public service.
In his Register of Interests entries, Chris has stated that he derives ‘occasional income from media/journalism activities.’ The truth is that Chris has established a very lucrative second career from these activities.
The @ElectoralCommUK website shows that Chris has received £53,535 in donations. But this only reflects a part of what extra income he derives from his parallel career as a writer, journalist, media presenter/celebrity and in-demand speaker.
Chris’ donations and perks include:
£2,000 from Rockridge Partners.
£2,000 from banker Anthony George Watson.
£5,000 from @WeAreTheMU
£3,000 from @unisontheunion
£7,320 from Labour Friends of Israel. Chris has made three visits to Israel over the years which have been organised by Labour Friends of Israel. ✈️ 🇮🇱
£69,426.50 declared book royalties from The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS).
£492 in tickets & hospitality from the @NationalTheatre 🎭
£302 in tickets & hospitality from The @ROH_London 🎶
£708 from @BloomsburyBooks to attend The Edinburgh Book Festival x 2 📖
£500 in tickets & hospitality from @warnermusic to attend a Pet Shop Boys concert. 🎵
£3,000 in tickets & hospitality from @UK_Music to attend the @BRITs 🎶
£3,160 in tickets & hospitality from @Channel4 to attend the @BAFTA Awards. 🎭
£500 in tickets & hospitality from @warnerbros to attend a screening of Wonka. 🍿
£1,795 in tickets & hospitality from @HarrietHarman for @Wimbledon 🎾 🍓
£1,247 from @ncpparking to cover parking costs at Cardiff Station. 🚉
£801.70 in tickets & hospitality from @SOLTnews for Vogue World. 🥂
A donation from Global CEO of The Talent Business Gary Stolkin. Amount undisclosed.
£7,357,67 from the Qatar government for a visit to Qatar. ✈️ 🇶🇦
£2,500 from the EU Russian Centre for a visit to Russia. 🇷🇺
£4,678 from @ABColombia1 for a visit to Colombia. ✈️ 🇨🇴
With his approximate salary of £150,000, expenses, donations, income from speaking engagements, rental income, articles, books, TV appearances, podcasts and perks, Chris has prospered in his 25 years as an MP.
And as an MP, Chris initially voted to retain the two-child benefit cap, voted to scrap the winter fuel payment to pensioners, voted for the welfare changes that will impact people who are disabled and unwell, voted against an inquiry into grooming gangs, voted to restrict trials by jury and voted for the new police powers to suppress protests and freedom of speech.
‘The Labour Party - On Your Side’.
@UKLabour@Keir_Starmer@RhonddaBryant@RhonddaLabour@_LFI #LocalElections2026 #LabourDoorstep
Iran’s regime is illiberal and brutal, and the Iranian people deserve the freedom they have long fought for. This gives no right to the US or Israel -whose own policies in Palestine are also illiberal and brutal- to bomb Iran, nor to EU leaders to cloak escalation in hypocrisy.
“I do not wish to overstate the point, but pause for a moment and consider: if Russia had killed 167 Ukrainian schoolgirls, if Palestinians had killed 167 Israeli schoolgirls, if Iran had killed 167 schoolgirls, it would have been the biggest news story in the world for years.”
@RobertJenrick Combat 18 must be the cool boys club? Or is hanging around with Nazis your bag of tea?
The extreme right wing, chancers, charlatans and duplicious hypocrites.
You are one of the worst
Ed Davey, "We rightly expect our armed forces to protect British citizens around the world in crisis like this"
"But that includes tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes here"
"So as we protect THEM, does the PM agree that it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to support our armed forces, just like the rest of us do"
For those of you who don’t know MacLeod is a PhD in sociology who focuses on geopolitics and propaganda and its very cool that he is active on Twitter and you should all follow him
This is Richard Smith of the South Durham Hunt and he thinks it’s ok to hit a horse over the head. Make this ‘man’ famous.
Filmed by North East Hunt Monitors on 08/11/25