Peers are pocketing millions from foreign nations including China and Saudi Arabia, a bombshell Mail on Sunday investigation can reveal.
Some lords earn up to seven figures a year from hostile states, offshore tax havens or the oil-rich Middle East while they help shape British legislation. And, shockingly, it is all within the rules.
We can disclose that 24 peers were paid more than £5 million in total in just 18 months from foreign sources including Libya, Iraq and Qatar.
Our worrying revelations have led for calls for peers to be banned from taking any cash from unfriendly states.
Tory MP Alicia Kearns, who chairs the foreign affairs select committee, has called the situation a ‘farce’ and called for a blacklist of nations which should be banned from bankrolling peers.
