A CONTROVERSIAL Labour MP and her convicted drug dealer son are living in social housing - despite the pair earning up to £130,000 a year.

Shadow development secretary Kate Osamor has faced intense criticism after it emerged that she promoted her son in his House of Commons job, regardless of his conviction for having £2,500 of Class A drugs with intent to supply at Bestival in Dorset last year.

4 Ms Osamor is a close ally of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn Credit: Rex Features

Now the Sun on Sunday can reveal that Ms Osamor and her son Ishmael, 29, are living in social housing in Tottenham, north London - despite their earnings classing them ineligible by council guidelines.

Haringey Council documents from 2017 state that households earning in excess of £64,200 are not eligible to apply for a social housing property.

And it has been reported that 9,000 people are waiting for social housing in the borough - one of the poorest in Britain - and a further 3,000 are living in temporary accommodation due to the limited supply of properties.

Ms Osamor, a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, is paid a salary of £77,379 plus expenses. Since being elected an MP in 2015 she has also benefitted from £13,000 of travel and accommodation on visits to countries including India and Nigeria.

4 Ms Osamor and her son Ishmael, 29, are living in social housing in Tottenham

4 Kate Osamor, 50, and son Ishmael, 29, have a £750,000 pad in Tottenham, North London Credit: PA:Press Association

Her son Ishmael is working for her as her chief of staff and is paid up to £43,835. And before he resigned from Haringey council last month he was entitled to claim at least £10,000 a year in allowances from the council.

Ishmael was previously a director of two clothing companies and a second hand car sales business which was dissolved in September this year. He pleaded guilty to the drug charges on October 26, having brought ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine and cannabis to the music festival.

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Ishmael was spared prison after his barrister persuaded prosecutors he was not planning to make a profit from his £2,500 haul of drugs.

Judge Stephen Climie said the 29-year-old was lucky to avoid a four-year prison term and sentenced him to 200 hours of unpaid work instead and to pay £400 prosecution costs.

4 Kate Osamor and her son are living in a social housing in Tottenham, north London

Osamor pleaded guilty to four drugs charges after his barrister Mohsin Zaidi struck a deal with the Crown Prosecution Service at Bournemouth Crown Court.

The former Labour councillor was caught with 30g of ecstasy – a class A drug blamed for a string of deaths at music festivals – as well 7.5g of cocaine, 5.7g of ketamine and a trace of cannabis at Bestival in 2017.

Ms Osamor has denied wrongdoing in the row over her son.

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