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Health secretary keeps taking donations linked to private health (goodlawproject.org)

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Wes Streeting may have started as health secretary back in July, but the donations he’s been taking from companies and individuals with interests in the private health sector are still rolling in. The MP for Ilford North has been raking in support at a rate of almost £10,000 a month.

The £58,000 of office support Streeting has bagged from these sources since July 2024 are the latest in a long series of payments. Last year we showed how more than 60% of the donations accepted by Streeting since he entered parliament in 2015 were from companies and individuals with links to private health.

In February, Streeting took £53,000 from OPD Group Ltd to pay for staffing in his constituency office. OPD is owned by Peter Hearn, whose companies work with “senior NHS executive recruitment” and help “private sector providers recruit healthcare professionals”.

And in the same month, the health secretary accepted £5,000 worth of support for his constituency campaigning from Sir Trevor Chinn, a senior advisor to a firm holding investments in several private health companies.

These latest donations bring the total Streeting has accepted from private health-linked interests since 2015 up to £372,000 as declared to parliament and the Electoral Commission.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Trust in politics is now so low, so degraded, that nobody believes anyone can make a difference any more. After the sex scandals, the expenses scandals, the waste scandals, the contracts for friends – even in a crisis like the pandemic – people think they’re all just in it for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Think? A lot of people know most of them are in it for themselves. It's just a career to a lot of them, lining up the next job, and sorting a lot of their mates out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That’s a quote from Keir Starmer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I know it's a stupid thing to base opinions on, but has anyone else noticed the tie/accessory colour choices of the current crop of "Labour" politicians?