Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has announced that he is donating his third monthly MP salary to a Great Yarmouth-based charity that offers hot meals.

Mr Lowe, MP for the town, has chosen the Pathway Café & Support Centre to receive his next net MP salary which, with gift aid, equals roughly £5,000.

This charity offers hot meals to Great Yarmouth residents, roughly 80pc of whom attend are elderly, every weekday.

Anyone is welcome at the café, with a takeaway service also provided. No appointment or referral is required.

In addition to these efforts, the charity also funds a warm space which will be available to those who need it throughout the winter.

READ MORE: Rugby player, 23, found dead in village playground 'had so much to live for'

Mr Lowe MP said: “19,300 pensioners in Great Yarmouth are having their Winter Fuel Allowance cruelly stripped away from them.

"The work of local charities such as the Pathway Café & Support Centre will go some way to mitigating that damage, and I will do all I can to support these efforts - starting with this donation of my net monthly MP salary.

“I urge anyone in my constituency who is struggling to reach out - help is there for those who need it.”

Mr Lowe promised to donate his monthly salary to local causes during his election campaign.

Following his success in July, he donated to Great Yarmouth Football Club and to Hemsby Lifeboat.

MP Rupert LoweMP Rupert Lowe (Image: Rupert Lowe)

But the move has not gone down well with other local MPs, according to the Financial Times.

It was reported a Labour MP said the multi-millionaire is putting unfair pressure on them to give up their own £91,346 annual pay and a Tory MP said Mr Lowe was a “part-time MP” who could afford to give up his salary.

READ MORE: Church with 132-foot tower has roof damaged by climbing vandals

Mr Lowe, who is named as the director of four companies and has shareholdings in at least 19 businesses according to his register of interests, called the comments "ludicrous."

His net worth is estimated to be £30m, according to Company Check.

In a post on X/Twitter, he said: "I donate my entire net MP salary to Great Yarmouth charities, I put no pressure on other MPs to do the same. If other local MPs don't like it, tough... We've got them rattled. Anonymous quotes? What a coward!"