Senior MPs including Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick and Darren Jones are claiming tens of thousands of pounds a year in taxpayer-funded rent expenses while either calling for or implementing benefit cuts on the poorest By me, for the Big Issue bigissue.com/news/politics/m…

Millionaire Tory frontbencher Robert Jenrick billed the taxpayer £24,587.67 in 2024/25 in rent expenses for his constituency home in Newark, Notts His monthly claim is 77% higher than the average privately rented four-bed home in the Newark and Sherwood local authority area

Meanwhile, Jenrick called for benefit cuts and tougher benefit sanctions during his leadership campaign last year, and has more recently backed keeping the two-child limit, one of the biggest drivers of child poverty of any current policy.

Labour’s Darren Jones was second in command at the Treasury while it drove through cuts to winter fuel payments and housing benefit for private renters, and demanded the DWP make sweeping cuts to disability benefits

While helping push benefit cuts, Darren Jones claimed £39,428 in taxpayer-funded rent expenses in 2024/25 If he claims £3,750 a month for the whole year, his annual total will hit £45,000 - more than his constituents are paid each year on average bigissue.com/news/politics/m…

Conservative Party chairman Kevin Hollinrake co-owns five rental properties in York and used to live in the 15th century Crayke Castle before selling it for £2m He puts his £2,441 monthly rent on expenses, worth £29,290 a year – just above the average pay of his constituents