It’s day two of Labour conference and Sir Keir Starmer’s freebie fiasco still hasn’t gone away. Over a week since it transpired that clothing donations to Lady Starmer hadn’t initially been declared properly, revelations that the Prime Minister has received over £107,000 in donations since 2019 have caused outrage among the party’s voter base – and its own MPs. Corbynista Diane Abbott slammed the party’s top team for being ‘in the pocket of millionaires’, while Labour parliamentarians have blasted Starmer’s ‘double standards’ over the issue. Talk about trouble in paradise…
But not everyone believes the matter deserves media attention. At a Labour conference fringe event today, Sir Keir’s own biographer – the man who revealed Starmer had removed the Iron Lady’s portrait from the former No. 10 study – took umbrage at journalists covering the story. Blasting the press coverage the whole palaver has received, Tom Baldwin fumed that:
Support for Labour under this government is a bit shallow, a bit tepid.
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