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Dodgy Labour doners
An adviser to a shadow minister was handed a tasty freebie in the form of tickets to the British Kebab Awards from notorious ‘gig economy’ employer Just Eat. So much for caring about workers’ rights, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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THE senior adviser to Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, accepted a freebie night out from “gig economy” food delivery firm Just Eat — shortly before the firm announced it was sacking 1,700 couriers and ditching sick pay and holiday pay for their staff.
This is just one of the many small but offensive details in the register of payoffs and freebies to parliamentary staff.
Esther Webber, a journalist at the Politico website, went through the parliamentary registers this month, finding “Keir Starmer and his staff accepted tickets to attend concerts, football matches and horse-racing gifted by Big Tech companies and racecourse operators as lobbyists target potential players in the next UK government.”
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