Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has accused Labour of being controlled by the unions after it was revealed many of its MPs have received thousands of pounds in donations.

Speaking on GB News Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said:

“This Labour Government has revealed its true colours of cronyism. Since 2019, senior Labour politicians now in The Cabinet collectively received nearly half a million pounds in campaign donations from the unions.

“Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, received more than £14,000 in support from unions. Since 2019 Louise Haigh, the Transport Secretary, has received more than £24,000. The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and the Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson have received donations too.

“In fact, of the more than 400 Labour MPs, more than half of them took money in cash or kind, since the election was called, which totalled nearly £2 million.

“Now you may wonder, why does this matter? Political parties take donations from various institutions all the time, and it’s surely better that they’re funded by outsiders rather than by you, the taxpayer.

“But since the Labour Party has got into office, what has it been up to since the Fourth of July?

“Well, it’s been taking money from Tory voters and giving it to Labour voters, especially in the public sector unions.

“It began with a heartless scrapping of the winter fuel allowance, something which was received by pensioners and who, of course, disproportionately vote Conservative.

“But what followed has been a series of inflation-busting pay rises for the unions in the public sector. Teachers and nurses as such, receive a 5.5% pay rise while prison service workers and senior NHS managers will see their pay increase by five per cent.

“Train drivers have been given a whopping 14 per cent pay rise over three years. And the largest by country mile has been given to the junior doctors 22 per cent.

“And remember, inflation is back on target at a little over 2 percent.

“So the unions give millions to the Labour Party, which then takes billions from you, the taxpayer, to repay their puppet masters.

“This is a cynical transaction, a quid pro quo, where the funds from unions are effectively repaid by you 1000 times over.

“Ever since Sir Keir Starmer was elected Prime Minister, he has tried to maintain that the grown ups are back in charge, that the ‘dodgy Tories’ have been ousted, and that the morally superior Labour Party has been restored to its rightful place.

“Again and again, we hear him say that he is restoring governance as a form of service, but he is merely returning to Labour’s old ways.