Starmer and co rake in cash from private health donors – twenty-five percent more than the Tories

Keir Starmer and his front bench MPs have taken almost £650,000 from private health companies, according to a compilation of their declarations of MPs’ interests.

The totals accepted by MPs in Starmer’s Shadow Cabinet between 2020 and 2023 are:

• Keir Starmer £157,500
• Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting £193,225
• Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper £231,817
• Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves £14,840
• Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner £50,000
• Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy £1,640
• Total £649,022

Figures compiled by David Powell

The total accepted by Labour beats similar donations to the Tories by around twenty-five percent. Starmer and his health spokesman Streeting have vowed to extend the use of private companies for NHS services if Labour gets into government, while promising further austerity and refusing to say they will increase NHS funding to meet need, or increase wages for NHS staff, instead saying – just like Tories – that the NHS must ‘reform’ to be ‘sustainable’.

Both are also fully committed to the ‘Integrated Care’ programme of health rationing and incentivised cuts through withholding care – a direct import from disastrous US healthcare – that is wrecking the NHS even more thoroughly that previous Tory ‘reforms’.

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