Angela Rayner has taken a £25,000 donation from the wife of a oil and gas chief executive who has been a strong critic of Labour’s oil and gas policy. No one tell Ed Miliband…
In the latest register of interests Rayner is shown to have received “£25,000 towards running costs for the Office of Angela Rayner Limited” from Soha Riyadh Tawfiq Alsadek on 8th April this year.
Her benefactor, otherwise known as Suha Bseisu, is the wife of Amjad Bseisu. Bseisu, an Emirati, is current Chief Executive and founder of Enquest, an oil exploration and production company founded in 2010. It posted revenue of £1.1 billion in 2025…
Bseisu and his oil and gas company are very strong critics of Labour’s oil and gas policy:
Bseisu and his wife jointly run a scholarship foundation for students in the Middle East to study globally. This year EnQuest said its 2025 tax charge was heavily distorted by the non-cash impact of the two-year oil and gas windfall tax extension, creating a $123.9 million charge. It was recently fined £16.5 million for failing to decommission 33 defunct North Sea wells. Ouch – any responsible CEO would want the policies changed…
Rayner has been raking it in from speaking engagements but despite telling everyone about it there is still no sign of her promised memoir. Nor for that matter has any podcast materialised. But at least she has some cash to run her bid for a top job…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”