Keir Starmer pays back £6,000 worth of 'freebies' amid gifts row | LBC
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- Sir Keir Starmer has paid back more than £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality he received since entering Number 10 after a row over ministerial donations.
The Prime Minister is covering the cost of six Taylor Swift tickets, four to the races and a clothing rental agreement with a high-end designer favoured by his wife, Lady Victoria Starmer.
It comes after Sir Keir and other Cabinet members - who vowed to "clean up" British politics - faced weeks of criticism for accepting tens of thousands of pounds worth of freebies from wealthy donors.
The Prime Minister has committed to overhauling hospitality rules for ministers to ensure better transparency about what is provided following the backlash.
On Wednesday, a Downing Street spokesperson said: "The Prime Minister has commissioned a new set of principles on gifts and hospitality to be published as part of the updated ministerial code."
Nick Ferrari is joined by Former Downing Street Director of Communications Guto Harri, who says Labour should ‘get their principals straight’ and 'there’s something fundamentally weird about all this’.
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Its about time our politicians were taxed on their freebies, just like everybody else. Politicians are NOT exempt from these taxes but somehow the tax office ignores them. Kier Starmer should've paid over £50,000 in tax for his £107,000 of freebies. Maybe we need a public campaign to force the tax authorities to collect what is legally due, that change alone might remove some of those greedy snouts from the trough.
It's about time we cleaned up our politics full stop. Our politics and politicians are becoming just as bad has America's
Surely a better way is to make all gifts illegal.
@@annA48126 Wasn't THIS what they were going to do after the duck house shenanigan and cash for questions. and by the way the rules they have now were of the Tory making.
And fined for non-disclosure..
I think this would be tax exempt, it was a gift from a friend. Legislation should be changed.THEY ARE ALL HYPOCRITS, blue red or yellow.
Journalists must be careful shining a spotlight on receiving gifts….how many free tickets to fully catered events do they receive…stones, glass houses.
Thirty plus grand of gifts for each journalist 🤔🤔 Hardly .
Its like children playing at journalists. Get after the real 'criminals' like the covid contracts and do a grown ups job.
So you dont mind labour ripping us off?
The Reform guys definitely do not want the covid grants looking into considering Reform MP Rupert Lowe took hundreds of grands in grants and furlough in a company he set up with Mrs Sunak, then mysteriously folded owing creditors £6.1 million.
Let me guess: it was corruption when Boris did it, but not when it's your team doing it?
As well as corrupt MPs
😂😂😂 Thank you for perfect example of left-wing double standards.
A Labour peer who donates massive amounts to the Prime Minister has nothing to gain?
Not even a number 10 entry pass....
These gifts Starmer has had must surely be Benefits in Kind and taxable, they would be if we received them. Are the Inland Revenue sleeping ?...
@@garyb455 No that’s a separate list of freebies.
Does he think that giving back just £6,000 is going to get us back on his side, too late mate you are done
Give all those arrested or in prison the opportunity to pay back and there'll be plenty of prison cells available.
What a hypocrite and now trying to justify the bribes.
Take the donation, criticised
Pay it back, criticised
Not take it in the first place, look a bit scruffy on the campaign trail, criticised
" should have gone to Specsavers " ..... starmer 😨
Bunch of amateurs
If he wanted to get his credability back, he should have returned the winter fuel allowance back to the pensioners. NOT £6000 back to his mate!. I question his judgement, and I voted labour!
Why would the 40% of pensioners in 1million pound plus homes need it?
@@V4Now And what about the 60% of pensioners who do, and have paid tax for 60+ years. This is ''NOT A FREEBIE'!...😒.
He would have been criticised for u turning on the decision, you should know politics can do no right unless they give everyone free money
@@mjl2904 52yrs of working for a living and still waiting for 'FREE MONEY'.
No it isnt. Even though it is within the rules....like Rosie Duffield staying in her cushy seat as an Independent for example... it is bad optics so you put your hands up and show some contrition. Perhaps the estimated £19billion red flagged covid contracts....and this costs the tax payer....freebies cost us nowt...is where you should get some perspective and do your job and chase those 'potential' criminals? Desperate stuff.
Why are you defending this appalling behaviour?
People are going cold to pay for his fancy clothes.
@@HughJannus-vw4om no they are not. They are not being paid for from the public purse. Billions going to the tories pals on the other hand did come out of our pockets
Will Jenrick be handing back.his £75.000 'gift'.
WhatAbout ……
@@CritcalThinker37986you can say that but if you look at it objectively and use your critical thinking skills rather than playing sides. Robert Jenrick took a donation from a shady outfit. A company that has no employees, has never made a profit, is currently in debt and has taken loans from a company based in the Cayman Islands. Sir Keir Starmer has taken donations from a Labour peer whom is a legitimate individual. Both have declared their donations yet for one the news cycle has been endless for the other you have to search for it. I get that one individual is the Prime Minister while the other is campaigning to be the leader of the opposition. If the reason for highlighting the story is because this practice doesn’t sit right with the electorate than surely we would be focusing more on Jenrick because of the source of the funds.
No bets taken
Shall we ask Boris, Liz & Rishi the money back for there freebies aswell?
No this is labours greedy hands. You seem confused.
@@HughJannus-vw4om Did I say labour wasn’t being greedy? No. Im stating facts that “other” people who was in power also need to pay money back.
Did boris rent out a council house he claimed for?
Or was that labour?
@@HughJannus-vw4om a Tory minister claimed back the money to do maintenance on his moat. Your pearl clutching really just is the height of pettiness.
@@HughJannus-vw4om lol tories put labour to shame for their theivery lol
£2500 for glasses? My Cartier didn’t cost that much and he looks like Harry Potter in his
£2500 for several pairs of glasses, it's not just one
I'm an optician, if he wears varifocals and has several pairs that price is not that surprising
So from the comments here it seems that accepting gifts within the rules and declaring it correctly is corruption if they are a Labour politician; but it's perfectly OK to accept donations and gifts outside the rules, not declare it and lose the records of it, if you are Boris Johnson.
OK, got it now.
Its not the case of Repaying Any Money. Its the Fact He Took It in the first place. If he hadnt been found out. He would have never Paid a Penny Back. Time for the ones involved in any Freebies and Personal Donations to GO. Reason the Country do not Trust Them. Without Trust we have no Government.
None of it broke a single rule and all of it was declared.
@@mwd331 Really if thats the case why did he pay 6 grand back.
@@johndean1634You are spot on. Starmer says that "new principles" need to be drafted. Integrity is a very old principle, which elite polticians (of all parties), bar a very small minority, seem to not have.
In decades gone by, people entered politics (and became MPs) because they had a genuine desire to represent their constituents and act in their constituents best interests.
Nowadays, people, without any apparent wider social conscience, become MPs and (within jig time) are elevated to senior positions and apparently prioritise their own self gain & future career development (outside the Commons), with representing the people (they are meant to serve) relegated to the lowest priority (if even a priority at all).
Another fundamental (age old) principle is to not tell lies (and tell the truth). It seems that the complete opposite is required to become a "successful" MP or Minister.
Unfortunately it is not just the odd bad apple, the whole barrel is rotten.
Given this is 'business as normal' why do I not recall the topic being in the news every week for the 14 previous years. The only one that springs to mind is 'wall paper', but Johnson alone took multiples of the values we are talking about now. I'm for a central reporting principle, where no money / gift can be given directly to an MP or spouse. Pay your bribes directly to the civil service directly with a note on who to forward it to. Also the suits are not worth £40K, they just charge £40K for them. They are probably made by the same seamstresses who make £400 suits.
WhatAbout …. just stop normalising this. It’s bad behaviour no matter who does it. Alternatively you can support Keir and reap all the corruption he, his party and other parties sow. Enjoy.
@@CritcalThinker37986for someone called critical thinker there is not much thinking there
If it had been a conservative PM the opposition would be all over it like a bad rash. Why a super injunction on a story which is in the public interest.
Guto showing how clueless he is.
paid back to try and get headlines to distract from a bigger upcoming scandal
Most Labour voters are decent working class people, but these days the party is run by people with very different backgrounds and attitudes. Hopefully, this scandal will make people see those at the top of Labour are only in it for themselves.
There’s more public school people at the top of Labour than at any time in history. Most succeeded through pure graft. I get your point but keep it in perspective
This isn't a scandal. It's another media job to discredit the labour party
@@Mikeysof1no it’s a scandal. It’s corruption, unethical bad behaviour. Lots of people can and should call it out. Others, like yourself want to excuse and normalise corruption because you believe Keir and Labour are on your side..
DISGUSTING
Ferrari you are a waste of space
We'll still be waiting for an apology, starmer...
For all public servants: no donations, no gratuities across the board. They can all afford it. There is some justification for claiming reasonable out of pocket expenses that are unavoidable in performing their public duties, which should be paid from public funds, not accepted as donations. Second homes in London should be procured and managed by the state.
£6000 is almost what some people are being forced to live on a year!!! They have to dress themselves, pay rent, feed themselves and make appointments on that!!! Frankly I think accepting designer clothing “to be able to run a successful campaign” is BS!!! We don’t care what they are wearing!!! To be honest I’d be more impressed if I found out their clothes came from Oxfam or Primark than some overpaid designer!!! Don’t expect us to make sacrifices if you aren’t willing to make the same ones!!!
Who is “forced” to live on 6k a year?
Currently on UC with one child. Rent is £750 a month, I get £1275. Do the math. Before anyone calls me a scrounger, I paid into the system for 45 years. With a salary in excess of 50k p/a for over twenty of those years. So I paid my fair share in tax and national insurance.
@@Crypto-Live MAHOOSIVE HUGGLES xox
Conservative got rid of Liz truss with in months . It's time for labour to get rid of starmer.
Why? You seriously equate the disastrous Truss tenure with this non story?
Starmer just resign and be done with it, you should be running UK events rather than looking pretty and seen attending events F.O.C. Do the job you were elected for, rather than seeing what you can get for nothing.
Principles!?! Ffs. They, allegedly, are supposed to set the standards for the rest of us!! He has f.u. badly, paying money back is admitting it was wrong in the first place, legally or morally 😠
He should pay it all back every single penny.
I cant believe the labour voters supporting this in the comments.
Absolutely shocking.
WELL AS OPOSED TO THE THEIVERY RE COVID conTRACTS IT IS A BETTER MORAL POSITION
@@HopeGreen-m7i Both are terrible. I DONT SEE WHY LABOUR VOTERS REFUSE TO SEE.
No one is supporting it, it's called perspective.
Have you been asleep for 14 years?
If this is all we can complain about with Labour, they're doing all right.
Because no one expects Toroes to be better, we know they WILL do worse.
@@V4Now literally every comment is supporting it so stop being silly.
Its not about winning petty points over your fellow citizens.
@HughJannus-vw4om so you're okay with Jenrick taking a cash donation over 70k from a company with no registered employees or directors? I'm just wondering because this isn't exclusive to Labour
Oh, it's all fine then. Glad we solved this. This 100% reverted my previous opinion about Sir Kids Starver.
its taken 5 weeks to come up with that pathetic little excuse?
How more inept can they show themselves.
Positions up to now have used their best individual judgement…. That’s not what he said about Boris, he called for his resignation !!!!
Starmer doesnt care about his co workers or anyone else. He only cares about homself
Why not Next? Or M&S or John Lewis? Even a Savile Row taylor would be better. The optics of this are terrible.
If it’s ok to take it, then keep it, if it’s not then why say it was?? Why not give a donation to a charity instead. Like 1 that buys people in need interview clothes, or a food bank? The people he took the donations from don’t need £6,000 back. That’s just petty cash to them!
STARMER WILL BE DASHING OFF TO THE NEAREST SAVILLE !!SHOP
@@HopeGreen-m7i 🫣😂 Whoops I put an extra L in there! Either a autocorrect or a pretty telling mistake!!
Gim I’ll fix it for you!
They will NOW spend another week trying to justify WHY he gave the money back, crazy or what... Just STOP DIGGING!
More like being asked why they gave the money back. Journalist today are only interested in winding people up and not reporting the news
Why £6000. ? Is it for one pair glasses ? 2 tickets ? A week in the penthouse ?
Change, change, he’ll give back the loose change 😂
You do probably have to stop running around for a little while to either try on or be measured for a new suit!
When you’re in a hole, stop digging
He will claim it back in expenses
Total Stolen! Over 60,000$$$
Isn’t it funny that with all that is going on in the country and the world in general, that the right wing Tory mouthpiece media keep this non story front and centre. Yes Keir Stammer got a Taylor Swift ticket. Get over it ffs!
Non story? What a clueless statement
If only the media had held the Tories to account like this, even though Labour broke no rules. Bizarre.
Idgaf about rules.
The rules themselves are corrupt.
The media did hold them to account. Who do you think forced BoJo out. The Labour leadership spent a lot of time criticising the government and are now seen as hypocrites and liars. Glass houses and stones....
Just say no to any gift its not hard.
Oh really, I don’t believe it!!!!!
how does a pair of glasses help win a election
Too late two tier=🤡🤥.
Even if he pays it all back he is very sinister a liar the not gifts it's birbery and corruption
Never had any expenses at your job for things you could pay for yourself then?
How much in Total!?
Boris" & " Tony Stole from treasury
2k for glasses? even with the best hoya or ziess lenes. you'll have have change for a nice pair of sunglasses
Free gear kier
Never forget that NO rules were broken. It’s media outrage
So why is he stopping it?
@@HughJannus-vw4om Media pressure
Do you believe Boris did nothing wrong either?
Why do the rules allow them to do this in the first place? The rules themselves are corrupt and need changing. Saying they weren't broken is like saying "but the law gives me a free pass on the first 3 murders I commit"
Turn your brain on.
@@clementattlee6984I agree with you until you used an extreme example to justify your point.
It is a bit more like earning £55k and paying the amount you are in the higher tax band into your pension to avoid the 40% tax charge and reduce your tax liability to the basic rate of 20%
Starmer is a grifter like Meghan Markle!
MEAGAIN IS FREINDS WITH EPSTEIN AND DIDD HE, SAYS IT ALL, EVEN MAGGOTS AVOID HER
Keir Starmer is even having to visit food banks, as he doesn't have the means to buy provisions. At least this is progress from his childhood when he stole smarties from the corner shop daily.
You all voted labour 😂
What's funny? This is a complete non story and the best the tory press can manage in terms of a scandal.
Haha" ha
TURNED A PAGE OF THE SAME BOOK, WHAT A PERVERT ED EX SCUSE
I mean if the Tory page is 5 paragraphs and Labour are one three word sentence then yes