Emma Reynolds was helped to her historic general election win by nearly £20,000 of donations, her register of financial interests has shown.

The pensions minister ousted Conservative Steve Baker in the July 4 vote as she was elected Wycombe’s first Labour MP since 1951.

Among the donors who supported her campaign was the company run by Marlow Murder Club and Death in Paradise writer Robert Thorogood and his wife, Katie Breathwick, who is a presenter on Classic FM.

Their firm Brunswick Street Limited donated £2,500 to the local Labour Party to help Reynolds and her team fight her successful campaign.

Reynolds was asked for more detail about her relationships with the donors to her campaign and how their donations were used.

In a statement, the MP told the Bucks Free Press: “Election campaigns are expensive.

“All of these donations were made to Wycombe Constituency Labour Party to support the recent general election campaign and have been properly declared to both the Electoral Commission and on my register of financial interests in Parliament.”

Thorogood declined to comment on his company’s donation to Reynolds.

The MP’s public financial filings also list a donation of £7,625 by David Kogan Ltd, the company run by the historian, journalist and author of the same name.

Kogan, who has worked as a senior executive for the BBC, Reuters and Granada, wrote the influential book, ‘Protest and Power: The Battle for the Labour Party’.

The other donations listed for Reynolds’ election campaign were £7,000 from Adam Parr and £2,550 from Katy Simmons.

The MP’s filings also show that she has registered her unpaid role as a member of the council of management and as a governor of the Ditchley Foundation.

The Oxfordshire charity’s primary aim is said to be to try and improve British-American relations, but the organisation also attempts to renew the UK’s links with Europe after Brexit and ‘engage China on shared challenges in a constructive way’.

Reynolds has also listed her former role as managing director of The City UK, the trade association for financial and related professional services.

Her work for the London-based organisation lasted until May 23 this year, according to a July entry on her register of interests.

The filing says that she was paid £2,975.86 for ‘outstanding annual leave from my previous employment’ on July 15 this year and that she has not worked any additional hours since being elected as the MP for Wycombe.