Top Labour figures met financial services firms after £150k donation

Starmer and Rachel Reeves at the Labour conference. At the December meeting, Starmer said the party was ‘very obviously pro-business’. Photograph: Michael Bowles/Shutterstock

Senior members of the shadow cabinet have held a private meeting with a group of financial services companies to discuss the party’s banking policies just weeks after one of the companies donated £150,000 to the party.

Six senior Labour figures – including the leader, Keir Starmer, the shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and the shadow business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds – attended the meeting in Edinburgh last December, according to an investigation by the website OpenDemocracy.