WE USED

to look down on foreign countries where people entered politics to make money, but former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn is proof that Westminster can open doors to making a fortune.

His consultancy, A M Strategy, has just reported a £1 million profit for the past year. It now holds £2.7 million in equity.

Until last December, Milburn was chairman of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission — Theresa May’s ‘poverty tsar’.