The growing Labour freebie scandal is now even making Germans tut as the controversy grabs their headlines. The new PM Keir Starmer and Labour have come under increasing pressure in its ongoing freebies row . It was recently revealed that Starmer has accepted over £107,000 in gifts including clothing, hospitality and Taylor Swift tickets since 2019, more than two and a half times more than any other MP.
Reports emerged that Starmer had initially failed to declare £5,000 of gifts used to purchase clothes for his wife, Victoria Starmer , from Labour donor Lord Alli, and it's now been revealed that he accepted accommodation worth £20,000 from him for somewhere his son could study for his GCSEs. The former ASOS chairman has also £3,550 worth of clothes to Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner in June. Now, it seems the controversy has spread beyond the UK, with newspaper articles in Germany now reporting on the issue.
“I see @Keir_Starmer and @UKLabour are getting lots of coverage in #Germany - for all the wrong reasons including @taylorswift14 tickets & other #freebies,” Ray Massey, Motoring Editor and Columnist for the Daily Mail posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. He added: “How embarrassing for our nation.” The article was published in the Die Welt publication on September 26 and read: “British media had reported on this [the freebie controversy] before the conference began .
Other high-ranking Labour politicians also came under fire. “Politicians are allowed.