Clothes maketh the man, they say. In the case of Keir Starmer they seem to have become his undoing. Following a tough week for the Prime Minister, it emerged on Friday that a further £16,000 of designer clobber donated by Labour peer Waheed Alli had been wrongly declared as money for Starmer's private office. The revelations came in The Guardian, Labour's house mag - which perhaps gives a sense of how this story infuriates people on both sides of the political divide. Friends (mostly women) who voted Labour are furious that the person they thought would be an antidote to Tory sleaze has been caught with his snout in the trough. They can't believe how venal Starmer has revealed himself to be, or why he's allowed this catastrophic own goal. His peevish, dismissive response to the whole debacle hasn't helped either.
CLARA GASPAR: After the 'Monster of Avignon' case and the claims against P Diddy and Fayed, is it any wonder that so many women my...
TOM UTLEY: Why I reckon 'every pensioner in the country will be better off with Labour' is Starmer's biggest whopper of all
Exodus of the millionaires: As the small boats come to Britain, the small planes are heading the other way thanks to Labour. And...
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Who wants to be a millionaire? Don't phone a friend... phone a Mental Elf expert
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Lady Starmer might learn a lesson from Labour's last first lady Sarah Brown about clothing
JOAN SMITH: Keir Starmer doesn't dream or have a favourite book or poem... the truth is the PM doesn't have a shred of emotional...
QUENTIN LETTS: Is that sound a punctured bagpipe or an air-block in the conference hotel plumbing? No, it's the Labour Cabinet...
STEPHEN GLOVER: What does Lord Alli want for his largesse? He's no fan of the free Press and it would be an outrage if he asked...
SARAH VINE: I know it's hard for the children of politicians, but why do the rules seem to be different for the PM's family?
PETER HITCHENS: I know how Keir Starmer feels... the day I tried to debate my brother also ended in a sausages-style disaster
DAN HODGES: Sleaze. Cronyism. And lashings of hypocrisy. We all are now living in Starmer's Animal Farm...
It's not putting it too strongly to say we are in danger of sleepwalking into a major war - while holding a live grenade - writes...
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