The PM had hoped for a quiet summer after his election triumph. The calm is being disturbed by the controversy about him accepting gifts worth tens of thousands of pounds.
Keir Starmer promised “change” to a fed-up nation, but just 76 days into his premiership he is in danger of Britons forming an early view that he’s no better than the rest.
Alli, the former chairman of the online fashion retailer Asos and whose wealth is estimated at £200 million, is also Starmer’s biggest personal donor. He has been at the centre of a row after it emerged he was given a Downing Street pass for several weeks over the summer despite not having an official government position.This year Alli has given the Labour leader £18,685 worth of work clothes and several pairs of glasses.
Asked on radio if he was worried about the optics of taking so many hospitality tickets, Starmer said “most people” would agree his argument for doing so was “fair”. Football fan: Starmer in the stands before the UEFA Nations League match between Ireland and England in Dublin this month.At a grassroots level, where Britain’s relationship with politics has become severely fractured since the Brexit vote in 2016 and a revolving door of disastrous Tory leaders, some of Labour’s wise heads understand the damage such tone-deaf decisions can do – especially after his government just controversially axed winter fuel payments for around 10 million pensioners.
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