Britain's richest MP wants to gag press and prevent stories which might embarrass politicians

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Gag: Richard Benyon

A Tory MP and landlord making a fortune from housing benefit payments to the poor has called for changes to the Freedom of Information laws used by the Mirror to expose him .

Richard Benyon, the richest MP in a Commons packed with millionaires, wants the rules altered to prevent stories which might embarrass ­politicians being dug up by journalists.

He made nearly £120,000 in housing benefit from just one council last year through his inherited £110m family estate, we revealed last week.

But Mr Benyon has now called for changes to FOI laws stating “we need to make sure that the Act is there for what it is designed to do” rather than “raking up political ammunition”.

He also complained in a blog post for the rightwing website conservativehome.com that this newspaper used a “picture of me looking as posh as possible”.

The Mirror’s investigation with the GMB union revealed a string of politicians and political donors raking in housing benefit along with the Crown Estates, which supports the Queen, and Prince Charles’s Duchy of Cornwall.

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Paul Kenny: Accusation is 'complete rubbish'


Mr Benyon accused the GMB of “acting as a fig leaf for the Labour Party”, adding: “It has gone on a fishing trip around local authorities, using the Freedom of Information Act to harvest data with which to knock the government in general and Conservatives in particular.”

But Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB, said: “The claim that we are targeting Tory MPs is complete rubbish.

"When we started the FOI requests we had no idea rich Tories would be at the end of it.

“There should be transparency. The public has a right to know where this money is going and if taxes are being paid on it .

“Since Mrs Thatcher changed from the policy of spending on bricks to spending on rents, some £411 billion public funds has been spent on housing benefit.

“It would be far cheaper to build social houses for rent and stop this money lining the pockets of the already wealthy."

See which private landlords are making the most in housing benefits from your council

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Sounds like Nazi scum to me!  ::zomb:: 

Well, it would certainly be cheaper to build social housing and have them rent coming back to the councils, and not handing dosh over to them!

Gaging the press. Secret courts. Whatever next are these chancers going to come up with?

Get them out.