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How much does YOUR MP earn from second jobs and gifts? Search tool reveals exactly how much they have declared - and who from…
RHODRI MORGAN
25 January 2026
The extraordinary amount of money MPs earn from second jobs and gifts can today be laid bare by the Daily Mail's eye-opening new search tool.
According to Parliament's latest Register of Members' Financial Interests, MPs have declared almost £5.5million from employment stretching back to 2022.
That sum is on top of their starting salaries of £93,904.
Ex-prime minister Rishi Sunak topped the earnings table at £1.29m, ahead of Nigel Farage – a regular GB News presenter and maker of personalised Cameo video messages – who pocketed £973,000.
It means the pair accounted for 41 per cent of the total tranche from second jobs.
MPs also declared £2.8m in freebies in the latest register. Among the gifts doled out tickets to watch Premier League football, Lady Gaga and Ed Sheeran.
Members also enjoyed £1.29m worth of accomodation, expenses and travel abroad, registered as 'visits outside the UK'.
Examples include Mr Farage's £5,000 seat at the Helping a Hero Gala Dinner in Texas and Sir John Whittingdale's £1,200 admission to Qatar Goodwood Festival 2025 and the accompanying Regency Ball.
Under the House of Commons' own rules, MPs must flag any payments received within 28 days of receipt.
Repeatedly failing to do so can, in extreme cases, lead to them being ousted as an MP, although late registers of interests are relatively common and do not typically progress through disciplinary processes.
Our analysis comes after Mr Farage this week apologised for breaching the rules 17 times.
Presenting on GB News and making Cameos were among the £384,000 payments the Reform leader failed to declare. He blamed the 'honest and genuine error' on the sheer number of well-paid second jobs he has.
Labour said that Mr Farage 'isn't on the side of working people – he's just lining his pockets when he should be standing up for his constituents'.
Yet Sir Keir Starmer himself was rebuked by Parliament's standards commissioner for breaching the same rules in 2022. Among the eight interests he failed to log on time were an £18,450 advance from publisher HarperCollins for a book he was writing and football tickets.
There has been renewed scrutiny of MPs' second jobs following the Owen Paterson lobbying scandal in late 2021.
At the height of the row, Sir Keir – then leader of the opposition – touted a total ban on MPs having second jobs with 'very limited exceptions'. He then softened his stance to focus on paid advisory and consultancy roles.
Labour politicians took home an extra £467,323 through second jobs, on top of their base salaries.
Those designated as Labour/Co-operative took just over £16,000.
Yuan Yang, member for Earley and Woodley, came out as Labour's top earner. The former Financial Times journalist, elected in the most recent election, accrued just shy of £75,000 in 2025 – the majority of which came through advances on a book launch.
The Conservatives, meanwhile, racked up £3.6m through second jobs, Lib Dems took £139,436.
Across just three members, Reform took just over £1m.
Rishi Sunak ranked as the top Tory with speaking engagements across a bevy of international conglomerates, including hedge funds Bain and Makena Capital.
At the end of last year, the former Prime Minister announced he had taken on advisory roles with tech monoliths Microsoft and Anthropic AI, both of which could net him hundreds of thousands of pounds per year.