Elliot Lawry
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4,557 appearances
48 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Elliot Lawry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he's making around $140,000 Australian dollars a year from next year based on his 20 years in the EU Parliament.
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Yeah, exactly.
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He's resigned.
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He said that he's stepping away from his role as an MP for Clacton, but his plan is to trigger a by-election, then run in it himself to win the seat back.
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So, I mean, he gave one reason, but I'll give a bit of context before we go into what his reason was.
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The context is that there's ongoing investigations into his finances.
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Specifically, he's under investigation by the UK Parliament Standards Watchdog over an alleged underclad gift.
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So this was worth around £5 million and it came from a cryptocurrency entrepreneur called
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called Christopher Harborne.
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I should note that that was given to him before he became an MP in the parliament, but they are arguing that he should have declared that he had this gift from this entrepreneur.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And also on top of that formal investigation, just before he did resign, there was also reports from local media in the UK that he'd received undisclosed financial support from a man called George Cottrell, who has a prior US conviction for wire fraud.
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Yes.
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But he's saying that the reason he's being investigated is because the establishment is coming after him.
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Have you heard this term being thrown around?
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Kind of, yes.
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You might have heard of it used a lot in reference to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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Yes.
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A lot of times in vibing politics in the US, the establishment is viewed as these really wealthy people who kind of
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control the world and career politicians are often swooped up in that.
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