Shadow minister Alex Burghart refused to rule out a pact with Nigel Farage's (pictured) insurgent Reform UK three times on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show.
He spent 28 hours - more than three full average working days - filming hundreds of messages on top of his work as an Essex MP and Reform leader, giving him an hourly pay rate of £977.
Reform UK have overtaken Labour in the polls for the first time, with the latest estimate putting them one point ahead of Keir Starmer's party and four ahead of the Conservatives.