THE ongoing soap opera of Sir Keir Starmer’s freebies has had more plot twists than a Netflix mini-series. It is, after all, pretty astonishing that a man on a six-figure salary should be handed gifts of free designer suits, as well as frocks for his wife, by a generous multi-millionaire at a time when so many are struggling to pay bills . It’s staggering that a politician who sold himself to the nation as Mr Rules was happy to accept £107,000 of free clothes, concert and football tickets and use of a luxury penthouse apartment, without any worry that it might look hypocritical to the rest of us.
And it’s something of a shock that a Labour politician who accused the Tories of having their snouts in the trough seems to have no qualms when a Labour donor doles out the goodies to HIM. It’s also pretty amazing that Starmer thought he could move his entire family into his rich mate’s £18million penthouse for more than six weeks and we wouldn’t find out. But even that’s not the most bizarre aspect of this story.
No, the MOST surprising thing about this whole saga is that a man who made a career for many years as a top-flight barrister has run out of decent arguments in his own defence. Frockgate to Flatgate As we have moved seamlessly from Frockgate to Flatgate — with barely time to grab freebie tickets to an Arsenal match in between — so the Prime Minister’s explanations and justifications have changed too. He started with, “I’ve done nothing wron.
