Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said that it is “important” to look at a “human story” behind a donation as he defended the use of accommodation for his son to study for his GCSEs during the general election campaign. Following the reporting of the donation, Sir Keir told Sky News that he was not going to “let my son fail or not do well” in his exams while journalists were outside the family home in north London. He had previously told LBC that he was “not going to apologise for not doing anything wrong” as he defended his decision to take the gift.
Speaking to Sky News from New York City, where he is attending the UN General Assembly, Sir Keir said that the election had been called “not when we expected it”. “My son happened to be in the middle of his GCSEs,” he added. “That means there are a lot of journalists outside the front door and in the street.
” He said he is “not complaining”, but “if you’re 13, as my girl is, if you’re 16 as my boy is, that’s quite hard to navigate when you’re concentrating on GCSEs,” he said. Sir Keir explained: “I said, ‘we’re going to get you out of here and get you somewhere where you can just study and get to school and back without having to go through all of that’. “And that’s when someone says, well, in which case I can make this flat available to you.
“It’s safe, secure, he can get on.” The Prime Minister later went on: “I do think sometimes it’s important just to look b.
