Badenoch registers gift of £8,177 for Murdoch meeting in Greece

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has registered gifts worth £8,177 covering travel and accommodation for a meeting with media mogul Rupert Murdoch in Greece.

Badenoch, along with her husband Hamish and shadow minister Alex Burghart, were flown to Athens on 24 August - with the costs paid for by the Murdoch family's News Corp UK organisation.

Badenoch's spokesperson said: "Kemi was pleased to meet Rupert Murdoch and senior News Corp and News UK executives.

The spokesperson added: "Kemi values serious engagement with Britain's major media organisations and the people who run them (including at the BBC) and will continue to make the case for a free and independent press."

The figures were published , external in the latest register of members' financial interests, in which MPs must report gifts worth more than £300 within 28 days of receipt.

In the latest list, Prime Minister Andy Burnham registered three tickets worth £677.34 for seats in the directors' lounge at Everton's first game of the Premier League season.

In the record of her meeting with Murdoch, Badenoch lists the following gifts for her and her husband from News Corp UK:

An outbound flight from Rome to Athens and a return flight to London, amounting to an estimated value of £4,000