This article criticizes Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Lady Victoria for accepting expensive gifts and hospitality from wealthy donors, including designer clothes and a Downing Street pass for a donor. The author argues that this behavior appears hypocritical given their public stance on austerity measures and suggests potential impropriety.
There was a touch of Marie Antoinette hauteur about Lady Starmer’s appearance at London Fashion Week yesterday, sporting a flamboyant designer outfit.
Looking at the panoply of gifts and hospitality Sir Keir has received from various benefactors since the 2019 election suggests a propensity to freeloading behaviour. Worth £76,000 in all, they include numerous tickets to see his beloved Arsenal, other big football matches, concerts by Adele and Coldplay, theatre seats, hotel stays, and a £4,500 family holiday on the scenic Gower peninsula.
In a mealy-mouthed statement yesterday, he claimed that ‘all the rules were followed’ over declaration of these donations. That may be true in theory, but does it pass the smell test?
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