PM says the public can make their own judgments about gifts and maintains no rules have been broken
Keir Starmer said Waheed Alli ‘wanted a Labour victory’ in the election and had no other motive for his generosity.Keir Starmer said Waheed Alli ‘wanted a Labour victory’ in the election and had no other motive for his generosity.Keir Starmer has said the row over him borrowing Labour donor Waheed Alli’s luxury flat for filming was “farcical” and that the public would come to their own judgments about his reasons for taking support from the peer.
“That was just part of a video we were putting out in relation to – I think it was during Covid. Anybody who thinks that I was pretending it was my own home – the idea that I’ve got union jacks by my fireplace at home and or that I would invite a bunch of you lot into my living room to have a look around. I mean, I think the idea that I was trying to pretend that it was my home is pretty farcical. And, no, I’m not going to be inviting you in to film me in front of my fireplace.
Asked whether he had ever discussed policy with Alli, or if the peer had been involved in helping draw up lists of candidates for jobs, Starmer said: “No. He is a Labour lord and he wanted a Labour victory and that was his sole motivation. And the fact that he is already a Labour lord takes away any sense that there’s a reward for him. He wanted a Labour victory, that motivated him, and he got one.”and journalists to revise before his GCSEs.
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