How a lot Nigel Farage has earned from second jobs after guidelines breach
With Nigel Farage found to have breached code of conduct regarding his second jobs, we reveal just how much he and every other MP has earned as extra income on top of being an MP
Nigel Farage breached the MPs’ code of conduct 17 times last year(Image: Anadolu via Getty Images)
After Nigel Farage was found to have breached the MPs’ code of conduct 17 times last year regarding his declared additional income, we reveal just how much he and every other MP has been paid.
Farage was found to have repeatedly failed to declare his income from additional jobs on time. Under parliamentary standards rules, MPs have to declare any income received from additional work within 28 days of it being received. These declarations are made in something called the Register of Members Financial Interests.
A total of £384,000 of Nigel Farage’s additional income was found to have been declared after that limit.
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The payments make up part of the £1.6 million fortune that the Reform UK leader has received from his 15 “second jobs” since being elected as an MP in July 2024.
That’s on top of his MP salary of £93,904 a year. Farage’s biggest earner is his job presenting for GP News, from which he has received an estimated £664,000 since becoming an MP. He has also received £415,000 for being an ambassador to gold traders Direct Bullion and £180,00 from video messaging site Cameo.
The latest Register of Members Financial Interests has also revealed more details of one of Rishi Sunak’s additional jobs. The former Prime Minister’s job as an advisor for AI firm Anthropic has earned a charity he founded £373,000.
Sunak has received 3,547 shares from Anthropic for his role as a senior advisor, which he started at the end of September. Those shares have been valued at £373,000 and will be donated to charity over the course of the next 12 months.
The lucky charity is the Richmond Project, a numeracy charity set-up by the former PM and his wife Akshata Murty. With Sunak doing an estimated 70 hours of work for Anthropic, it works out at an hourly rate of around £5,300.
With the shares being distributed throughout the year, it takes Rishi Sunak’s earnings from second jobs since the general election to just over £1.0 million, based on the shares being evenly distributed throughout the 12 month employment period. That makes him Parliament’s second-highest earning MP.
