With the release of the first register of MPs’ interests of the new parliament, Labour is under the spotlight for its union connections. More than half of the Starmy Army took donations from unions totalling £1.8 million since the general election was called. Unions aren’t the only parties interested in keeping wide-eyed Labour MPs sweet, though… 

Michelle Welsh, Labour’s new MP for Sherwood Forest, apart from claiming to work 145 hours per week (four times higher than a normal working week), took £10,000 from solar developer Elements Green to fund her election campaign. Would that have anything to do with the huge (and unpopular) solar farm it is building on her doorstep?

Elements Green are constructing a 7,000-acre solar farm around entire villages in the local vicinity all while getting busy sponsoring council-run events in the planning area. Make hay while the sun shines…