Are they all at it?

"She spends all of her allowances and all of her salary running her office and I actually subsidise it to the tune of every year at least a hundred thousand pounds a year." - Ken Follett

"There are no donations involved. The funds are either from my parliamentary income, or from the joint accounts that I hold with my husband, Ken Follett." - Barbara Follett

...admits that her office "is heavily subsidised by her husband, Ken Follett... In the financial year 2003-2004.. she claimed only £118,214 in expenses. She contributed her entire salary of £55,118 to meet some of the difference. The remaining £102, 673 was met by Ken." - Barbara Follett (2004)


"Lee Jasper, the senior Ken Livingstone aide currently under investigation by the GLA, lives in state-subsidised social housing, despite earning £117,000 a year, the Standard has learned.

"Mr Jasper, the Mayor's director of equalities and policing, pays around £90 a week - a sixth of the market rent"


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