{"id":73867,"date":"2025-03-30T06:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T06:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=73867"},"modified":"2025-03-30T06:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T06:34:14","slug":"labour-mp-charged-the-taxpayer-900-so-she-could-pay-pet-rent-for-her-cockapoo-dog-to-stay-at-her-second-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/30\/labour-mp-charged-the-taxpayer-900-so-she-could-pay-pet-rent-for-her-cockapoo-dog-to-stay-at-her-second-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour MP charged the taxpayer \u00a3900 so she could pay &#8216;pet rent&#8217; for her cockapoo dog to stay at her second home"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/03\/29\/23\/96713903-14551205-image-a-78_1743291747935.jpg\" alt=\"Taxpayers have picked up the bill for party whip Taiwo Owatemi, Labour MP for Coventry North West, to allow her dog to stay at her second home in the capital\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A senior\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-345e0e00-0cf7-11f0-b6c3-85ec0b920365\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/labour\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Labour<\/a><\/span> MP has sparked fury by charging taxpayers \u00a3900 in a year for &#8216;pet rent&#8217; for her cockapoo Bella, it has emerged.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14551205\/Labour-MP-charged-taxpayer-pet-rent-cockapoo-dog-second-home.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A senior\u00a0Labour MP has sparked fury by charging taxpayers \u00a3900 in a year for &#8216;pet rent&#8217; for her cockapoo Bella, it has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Taiwo-Owatemi.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73869,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73867\/revisions\/73869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}