The Register of Members’ Interests — where MPs disclose any gifts, investments, events they’ve attended and allowed the taxpayer to foot the bill, and so on — is a crucial source of information, quietly revealing some of the opaque networks that help power operate as it does in this country.
To pick a handful of examples, it’s thanks to the register that we know, say, the high proportion of landlords or investors in price-gouging supermarkets among the people tasked with improving housing affordability and easing the cost-of-living crisis. We also know who contributes to a
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