Hypocrisy Alert.

 

Sir Keir Starmer speaking to LBC’s Nick Ferrari at Breakfast Matt Crossick/Alamy Live News

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25 September 2024 • 

Sir Keir Starmer suggested he took £20,000 in donations towards accommodation from Labour peer Lord Alli so that his teenage son would not be disturbed while revising for his exams.

The total sum of accommodation included the use of an £18 million penthouse in Covent Garden

The Prime Minister told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “My boy, 16, was in the middle of his GCSEs. I made him a promise, a promise that he would be able to get to his school, do his exams, without being disturbed.

“We have lots of journalists outside our house where we live and I’m not complaining about that, that’s fine. But if you’re a 16-year-old trying to do your GCSEs and it’s your one chance in life... DT.