British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was given a further £16,000 worth of clothes by top Labor Party donor Sir Waheed Ali, it has been revealed as the scandal over freebies to senior government officials widens. Ta.
Two separate donations to Starmer from Labour's Waheed Ali, including £10,000 in October last year and a further £6,000 in February, were initially described as “a donation to the opposition leader's private office”. ” was classified as a fund, but is now classified as a donation. reclassified as clothing donations; guardian report.
This is added to Sir Ali's £16,000 clothing donation to Starmer and £2,485 for eyeglasses, bringing the media mogul's gifts to the left-wing leader to more than £34,000.
On the other hand, Starmer also admitted A Labor leader's son was to receive £20,000 worth of accommodation from Ali to study for his GCSE exams during the election period.
The donations have raised questions after it emerged that the Labor Party donor and lifelong compatriot had been granted a Downing Street security pass despite not being a member of the government.
Starmer is declared Personal gifts worth more than £100,000, including tickets to football matches and concert tickets for Taylor Swift and Coldplay.
As the scandal unfolded, Starmer, as well as other senior government officials including Deputy Prime Minister Angela Ryner and Prime Minister Rachel Reeves, said they would stop accepting clothing gifts while in office.
They all insist that their donations so far have been made legally.
However, there have been calls for an investigation into the newly formed Labor government over the donations, including from the left-wing Scottish National Party (SNP).
SNP MP Brendan O'Hara said there needed to be a “comprehensive investigation” into freebies given to senior Labor politicians or “it is inevitable that a series of damaging revelations will continue to undermine public trust”. ” he said.
Separately, Rupert Lowe, the Reform UK MP said He said he was considering whether to bring charges against Mr Starmer and others for possible breaches of bribery laws.
“When people receive gifts like this, they become bought people,” Lowe argued earlier this week, adding: “I think a lot of them are a bunch of pig-barrel clowns.”
