Dan Carden has resigned from the Labour front bench twice, both times to vote his conscience against his own party. In October 2020 he walked out to oppose the Spycops bill, which the leadership had told him to abstain on. In November 2023 he was one of ten frontbenchers who quit to back a Gaza ceasefire. He calls himself a socialist of the party's older, working class kind, and Liverpool Walton returns him comfortably. The register complicates the portrait. Carden has drawn around £76,000 in outside earnings this Parliament, among it writing for Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail, and an advisory role with a United States robotics and aviation firm, alongside a seat on the advisory board of an addiction treatment group. None of it is hidden and he files diligently. But a politician who resigns office over principle invites the question of what the principle costs, and here it runs to £76,000 a year on the side. Verdict: quits the front bench on conscience, keeps the second income on retainer.