The article reports that Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, may claim the House of Lords’ daily attendance allowance if he takes up a peerage, alongside his mayoral salary. It raises the prospect of him becoming one of the country’s highest-paid politicians and focuses on the political sensitivity of receiving both forms of income.

The reported allowance is £390 a day and is tax-free, while Khan’s London mayoral salary is stated as about £170,000 a year. The article presents this as a possibility signalled by Khan rather than confirming that he has already made a claim.