The facts as we know them are that Sir Keir Starmer (SKT) and his spouse received £18,685 and £5,000 respectively for clothing and glasses courtesy of Lord Alli.
Sir Keir and Lady Starmer earn approximately £216,000 a year.
The clothing upgrade (?) comes from a suggestion by Lord Mandelson that Sir Keir should present a sharper look. After all, Lord Kinnoch once suggested that candidates should dress as though they were calling on the Aunties and Uncles on a Sunday morning.
All of which begs the following questions:
What sort of high earning millionaire politician accepts money to buy clothing?
Why does SKT still look as though his suits are Pound Shop specials?
What did Lord Alli look for in return for his gifts?
Are our leaders so grasping that they want to hoover up every penny that loosely lying around?
Meanwhile David Lammy (the Foreign Secretary) who supported the Prime Minister’s clothing donation is no slouch in the hand out department having declared £150,000 in donations and freebies so far this year.
Lammy support is top of the range for fatuous remarks stating Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria accepted donations towards clothing because there are no taxpayer funds to cover UK leaders’ wardrobe costs.
The Foreign Secretary said the couple had accepted donations so they could “look their best” to represent the UK when other countries allowed lavish, taxpayer-funded budgets for clothing for their leaders.
The rest of us buy our own clothing unless our parents decide to give our wardrobes a boost.
But the optics are bad and it’s all reminiscent of post war Eastern Europe. Dictatorship of the people and all resources flowing to the top to the detriment of most of the population