SARAH VINE: Starmer's greedy pigs are now in the Animal Farm house By Sarah Vine For The Mail On Sunday Published: 21:03 EDT, 28 September 2024 | Updated: 21:10 EDT, 28 September 2024 e-mail 1 View comments Clothes maketh the man, they say. In the case of Keir Starmer they seem to have become his undoing. Following a tough week for the Prime Minister, it emerged on Friday that a further £16,000 of designer clobber donated by Labour peer Waheed Alli had been wrongly declared as money for Starmer's private office.
The revelations came in The Guardian, Labour's house mag – which perhaps gives a sense of how this story infuriates people on both sides of the political divide. Friends (mostly women) who voted Labour are furious that the person they thought would be an antidote to Tory sleaze has been caught with his snout in the trough. They can't believe how venal Starmer has revealed himself to be, or why he's allowed this catastrophic own goal.
His peevish, dismissive response to the whole debacle hasn't helped either. Old Tory mates are torn between incredulity, a told-you-so euphoria and a deep sense of frustration that because of Starmer's stonking majority, there's not much anyone can do about any of it. Following a tough week for the Prime Minister, it emerged on Friday that a further £16,000 of designer clobber donated by Labour peer Waheed Alli had been wrongly declared as money for Keir Starmer's private office It's like some surreal satire on the double standards of.