New Football Regulator Chief Boasts About Donating Cash to Starmer – Guido Fawkes

New Football Regulator Chief Boasts About Donating Cash to Starmer

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The government’s preferred choice for chairman of the new embattled football regulator David Kogan appeared in front of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee this morning for his pre-appointment hearing. Kogan, a media rights activist, discussed the press coverage of his links to Labour:

“They haven’t actually discovered all that I have done as a donor to Labour party and I’m prepared to declare now on the public record that five years ago I contributed very small sums of money to both the leadership campaigns of the Labour party of both Sir Keir Starmer and of Lisa Nandy – that hasn’t been discovered by the press, I’m happy to declare it now.”

That is on top of the nearly-£75,000 Kogan donated to Labour MPs and PPCs between 2023 and 2024. Kogan might end up on the pitch longer than the now-culture secretary whose entire department is up for the chop…

Hat-tip: Jack Elsom