ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Labour MP spent £39k last year on grace-and-favour flat

ANNA MIKHAILOVA: MP Jonathan Reynolds who is leading Labour’s charge to keep the £20 Universal Credit uplift spent £39,225 last year on a grace-and-favour flat By Anna Mikhailova For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:58 GMT, 24 January 2021 | Updated: 01:59 GMT, 24 January 2021 How piquant that the MP leading Labour’s charge to keep … Read more

Rishi Sunak rejects wealth tax to cover the £280billion spent fighting coronavirus 

Rishi Sunak rejects wealth tax: Chancellor WON’T bring in a one-off levy to cover the £280billion spent fighting coronavirus Rishi Sunak rejected proposal for emergency wealth tax to recover £280billion  Presented with plans for one-off levy on those with assets more than £500,000 or more £1million for a couple  including their family home and pension Told … Read more

Covid UK: Rishi Sunak rejects wealth tax to cover the £280billion spent fighting coronavirus 

Rishi Sunak rejects wealth tax: Chancellor WON’T bring in a one-off levy to cover the £280billion spent fighting coronavirus Rishi Sunak rejected proposal for emergency wealth tax to recover £280billion  Presented with plans for one-off levy on those with assets more than £500,000 or more £1million for a couple  including their family home and pension Told … Read more

Scottish government spent £55,000 ‘preparing’ civil servants for Alex Salmond inquiry hearings 

The Scottish government spent more than £50,000 on preparing civil servants to give evidence about the investigation into former First Minister Alex Salmond, it has emerged. Top officials are reported to have spent hours preparing for the sessions, where they then suffered a ‘collective memory loss’ on key details. This has led to accusations of ‘coaching’ … Read more

Exiled Napoleon spent final years living in agony on St Helena, reveals 203-year-old medical report

A medical report for Napoleon which reveals he spent his final years living in agony while in exile on the island of St Helena has come to light 203 years later. Notes from his Irish surgeon Barry O’Meara describe the French Emperor as being ‘tormented’ by toothache on the South Atlantic outpost. It discloses that … Read more

I’ve spent £150,000 on Monopoly… and I don’t even like playing it!

I’ve spent £150,000 on Monopoly… and I don’t even like playing it! Man, 51, owns 3,000 sets of the property trading board game – and they’ve never even been opened Neil Scallan, 51, has paid out £150,000 for 3,029 different sets of Monopoly The export manager from Crawley, West Sussex, started his collection in 2005 … Read more

Maya Jama and ex Stormzy ‘secretly spent Christmas together sparking hopes they could reunite’

Maya Jama and Stormzy reportedly spent some of Christmas Day together. The TV presenter, 26, and rapper, 27, called it quits on their relationship in August 2019 after four years together however are thought to have stayed pals. It has now been claimed that some pals of the former flames are hoping their festive meet-up could … Read more

Britain’s best universities spent £1.6m feeding students locked down by Covid

Russell Group universities have spent more than £1.6million on catering for self-isolating students since they returned to halls.  The University of Bristol spent the most on getting food to self-isolating students with a whopping £808,958.  Quarantine boxes that the university handed out to non-catered students in self-isolation cost £683,419 alone.  On top of that, the … Read more

Amanda Kloots shares photos from the last Christmas she spent with her late husband Nick Cordero

Amanda Kloots posted a photo from the last Christmas she spent with her late husband Nick Cordero on Thursday. Cordero tragically passed away earlier this year at age 41 after suffering complications from COVID-19, an ordeal which his wife documented regularly with Instagram followers. Despite having endured such a painful year, Kloots, 38, struck a … Read more

Sarah Beeny spent £70,000 on land for a camping trip

Sarah Beeny paid a seven-figure sum for her 220-acre Somerset farm, which is the subject of Channel 4 show, Sarah Beeny’s New Life In The Country.  The 48-year-old star of Property Ladder spoke to DONNA FERGUSON about the highs and lows of her financial life.  She is supporting Brain Tumour Research’s online ’12 Days of … Read more