The 7 worst Labour politicians this century - Reeves and Starmer aren't No. 1

So much for the party of honesty. Just last year, Labour swept to power promising integrity, competence, and a grown-up Government, and instead it's beginning to look like the most hypocritical administration in living memory.

The ministers who sneered from the green benches as a tsunami of Tory sleaze have turned out to be pretty good at it themselves. From unlicensed rentals and undeclared freebies to fraud, family dictatorships, and friendships best left unmentioned, the new moral guardians of British politics are deeply entangled in the very scandals they claim to abhor.

Sir Keir Starmer pledged to restore trust in public life, and yet his Cabinet is fast becoming a rogues' gallery of entitlement, arrogance and astonishingly bad judgment. Behind the polished sound bites and photo ops lies a familiar stench, the whiff of power gone to one's head.

Here are the seven Labour figures who prove that for all the talk of integrity, the new establishment looks suspiciously like the old one.

His Government feels less like a new dawn and more like a continuation of the same champagne hypocrisy: a party elite living it up while warning the rest of us that we might need to tighten our belts again.

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Before that, she was accused of fibbing on her CV, claiming professional credentials she didn't quite possess. And as ever, her excuse has been that it was all an "inadvertent mistake."

Funny how those keep happening.

This is the woman who now controls the nation's finances, and who, if rumours are to be believed, is about to demand we all shell out a bit more in income tax again. She's the one who lectures small landlords and taxpayers about compliance while breaking her own regulations.

Reeves calls it oversight, but most voters would call it hypocrisy. If she can't manage a rental agreement, why should anyone trust her with the British economy?

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Her connections are as uncomfortable as her contradictions: a socialist who preaches redistribution while living like the privileged few she claims to oppose.

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The Chagossians themselves, who have fought for decades to return home, were barely consulted. Labour once accused the Tories of selling out Britain's interests; Hermer's "historic agreement" shows they've learned from the best.

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