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10 January 2023 - Labour MPs defend accepting tens of thousands from little-known company
The Guardian reports:
Labour MPs have defended taking money from a little-known company that has emerged as one of Westminster’s biggest political donors.
Wes Streeting, Dan Jarvis and Yvette Cooper have all said they did nothing wrong by accepting tens of thousands of pounds from MPM Connect, which is part-owned by Peter Hearn, a Labour donor, but does not have any obvious line of business.
MPM Connect was revealed by Sky News and Tortoise on Monday to be one of two almost completely unknown companies to have donated large sums of money to MPs in recent years. The other is IX Wireless, which has donated more than £100,000 to Conservative MPs since 2019.
All three Labour MPs released similarly worded statements on Monday defending the donations, pointing out they had been reported to parliamentary authorities. Jarvis and Streeting called MPM Connect an “investment company in the employment sector” – although the company has no website and did not respond to media inquiries about its investments.
MPM did not respond to requests to comment. Lincoln Brown, an accountancy firm that shares the same registered address, refused to comment.
Jarvis and Cooper said MPM was registered at its accountants’ address. However, when Sky News visited that address, a person there claimed not to have heard of the company.[1]
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- ↑ Kiran Stacey and Rowena Mason, Labour MPs defend accepting tens of thousands from little-known company, The Guardian, 10 January 2023.
