He also donates £100 a month to the Labour party, as well as to a donkey sanctuary and the Humane World for Animals charity, he said
But he claimed his taxpayer-funded income does not go far because he pays £795 a month in rent, £177 on council tax, and other utility bills.
Of his most recent offence, he told the newspaper: “It was my understanding the flat hadn’t been occupied since 2007.
“I got the locks changed on October 29. I was apprehensive entering but it was nice inside. It was like going back in time, to the 2000s, there was an old-fashioned television.
“I changed the gas and electricity into my name and I told all the neighbours I was living there.
“I also wrote to the relatives of the owner, letting them know what I had done.”