Keir Starmer received more clothes worth £16,000

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer received an further £16,000 worthy of apparel from the Labour peer, Lord Alli, it has emerged.

The donations, first reported by the Guardian, were initially declared arsenic wealth for his backstage bureau arsenic person of the opposition.

The gifts - of £10,000 successful October 2023 and £6,000 successful February this twelvemonth - were declared connected time, but volition present beryllium recategorised arsenic donations successful benignant of clothing.

The recategorisation comes aft Downing Street sought proposal implicit the donations.

Sir Keir has insisted helium has ever followed the rules connected donations.

The premier minister, on with his lawman Angela Rayner and Chancellor Rachel Reeves, person said they volition nary longer judge donations of clothing.

Last week, Sir Keir told the BBC helium had accepted the donation for covering successful opposition, during a "busy predetermination campaign".

"I won't beryllium making declarations successful narration to covering again, understood," helium said.

The contention implicit donations has dogged Sir Keir’s authorities since Labour won its landslide wide predetermination triumph successful July.

Lord Alli, a regular donor to the Labour leader, has been astatine the centre of a enactment aft it emerged successful August helium had been fixed a impermanent Downing Street information walk contempt having nary ceremonial authorities role.

The TV enforcement has separately donated £16,000 for covering and £2,485 for aggregate pairs of glasses to Sir Keir.

The PM has besides defended accepting £20,000 worthy of accommodation from Lord Alli during the predetermination run truthful his lad could revise for his GCSEs without the media extracurricular his home.

The SNP has asked for an probe into donations to the PM and Labour MPs by Lord Alli.

In a missive to the standards commissioners successful the Commons and Lords, the autarkic advisor connected ministers' interests Sir Laurie Magnus and Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, SNP MP Brendan O'Hara said the revelations person "become Sir Keir Starmer's mentation of the expenses scandal".

Mr O'Hara said that unless the substance was "comprehensively investigated" past it was "inevitable that the damaging drip, drip of revelations volition proceed to erode nationalist trust".

Rows implicit donations and freebies overshadowed the commencement of Labour's yearly league past week.

The PM is acold from the lone MP to person received freebies implicit the past year.

Many existent MPs from each parties crossed the Commons database escaped tickets to sporting and taste events successful their registers of interests.