Labour chairman Ian Lavery received a £72,500 loan from the National Union of Miners in 2017 and 'termination payments' of £89,887 when he left to become an MPLabour's chairman refused 15 times to explain why the National Union of Mineworkers had paid off his mortgage. Ian Lavery was confronted by Michael Crick from Mail+ about why he had received £165,000 from the NUM which included payment towards his mortgage and a redundancy payment when he became an MP in 2010. It came days after he featured in a campaign video by Labour that accused the Tories of ‘stealing the miners’ pension fund’. Mr Crick asked him whether he had ‘a bit of a cheek’ doing the video given the money he had received from the NUM. It said the union overpaid him £30,600 but, after a dispute, he volunteered to repay only £15,000.

Source: Daily Mail December 05, 2019 00:22 UTC