Lord Cashman inherits his late partner Paul Cottingham’s estate

After Paul Cottingham passed away last year following a battle with cancer, Ed Miliband led the tributes for the long-term partner of Lord Cashman.

Miliband, who described the pair as the ‘Posh and Becks of the Labour Party’, said that he felt deeply privileged to have known Cottingham, who was a human rights activist.

Now Mr S can disclose that Cottingham left an estate worth £75,000, according to figures released by the probate office in London. As there was no will, Cottingham’s civil partner Lord Cashmam will inherit his estate under the rules of intestacy. The pair met in 1983 after Cashman’s EastEnders co-star Barbara Windsor, introduced them and after twenty years together, they became civil partners in March 2006.

Speaking at the PinkNews Awards shortly after his partner’s death, Cashman, who is the Labour Party’s global LGBT envoy, promised to enjoy life as Cottingham would have wanted him too.

‘I will celebrate Paul’s life in this way because I walked through towards the Peers’ entrance today, and there were about 30 soldiers and sailors there.