“Something Is Being Covered Up Here” Starmer Insists £20k Accommodation Freebie Was For Son To Study

Sir Keir Starmer has suggested he accepted £20,000 in donations for accommodation because his son needed somewhere to revise for his GCSEs while his family home was besieged by journalists during the election campaign.

The Prime Minister defended his decision to take gifts from Labour peer Lord Alli amid criticism of the arrangement, saying he was “not going to apologise for not doing anything wrong” and the freebies did not “cost the taxpayer a penny”.

But Sir Keir signalled he could continue to accept hospitality from donors, saying that it was a matter of “judgment” for individual MPs whether they receive certain kinds of donations.

Talk’s Kevin O’Sullivan and Isabel Oakeshott discuss the ongoing row. Isabel says: “They stayed there well after the exam season… There’s something we’re not being told here… Something doesn’t add up.”

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