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. Good heavens…
It’s scandal a minute with the Labour donor Lord Alli — who, it has now emerged via the Times, gave a £62,000 loan to Baroness Uddin to help her repay her expenses after she was ordered to by the Lords authorities. Revelations this evening found that the Labour donor bailed out the Baroness after she was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in the parliamentary expenses row. How very interesting…
The donation row hasn’t gone down well with Starmer’s army – with one lefty backbencher telling the Telegraph: ‘I don’t know of anyone who thinks [accepting these donations] is a good idea. Friends and colleagues are mortified.’ Oo er. Another Labour MP fumed that: ‘Lots of us are livid. This is what hypocrisy looks like.’ Certainly today’s latest news that Lord Alli himself is under further scrutiny is unlikely to calm tensions in the party any time soon. Talk about trouble in paradise…
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