Dear oh dear. It now transpires that Lord Alli is under investigation by the Lords Commissioner – with the millionaire businessman being looked into over ‘alleged non-registration of interests’ with concerns the Labour donor may have breached the Lords code of conduct. How curious…
The donor – who funded workwear for the Prime Minister and his wife, paid for expensive glasses for Sir Keir Starmer and even provided luxury accommodation worth over £20,000 to the Labour leader – is being investigated over ‘alleged non-registration of interests leading to potential breaches of paragraphs 14(a) and 17 of the thirteenth edition of the Code of Conduct for Members of the House of Lords’. The revelation follows Sir Keir’s ongoing freebie fiasco, in which the Labour lot were found to have accepted a rather lot of donations from the donor, who briefly even held a No. 10 pass. The only other peer under investigation by the Lords Commissioner is, Mr S would point out, one Baroness Mone.
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