Tory MP Richard Benyon – Britain’s richest MP worth
£110million - is raking in £625,000 a year from his hard-up tenants’ housing
benefit – despite blasting the “something for nothing” welfare state. But last night he was accused of cashing in off the back
of the very handouts his party pledged to slash – as it emerged a string of
other Tories were doing the same. Just last month the MP, 53, said: “The
average household spends £3,000 per year on the welfare state. This figure had
been rising inexorably and unaffordably.”
He is a director of the Englefield Estate Trust Corporation Limited,
which owns most of the land and property linked to his family. It got £625,964
in housing benefit from West Berkshire council last year, more than any other
private landlord in the area. Read more on the Daily Mirror website.
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