ANGELA Rayner received clothing worth more than £3000 from the Labour peer and donor Waheed Alli, it has emerged.
The Deputy Prime Minister declared a gift from Lord Alli in July – but failed to mention the £3550 sum was to pay for “work clothes”.
She updated her entry in the register of interests with the full information, having previously described it only as a “donation-in-kind for undertaking parliamentary duties”, The Times reports.
It threatens to reignite the freebies row, which mired the early days of Keir Starmer’s premiership.
The Prime Minister, Rayner and Chancellor Rachel Reeves have all sworn off taking further clothing gifts from Lord Alli, who was recently forced to apologise over failures in his own register of interests.
Rayner has previously declared other donations of more than £9000 from Lord Alli and she declared a holiday he funded for the Deputy Prime Minister and her former partner, Sam Tarry, over Hogmanay.
Elsewhere, ministers have been criticised for taking gifts from companies to big events like Premiership football matches and Taylor Swift gigs.
The Times reports that new freebies rules, personally signed off by Starmer, are due to be published as soon as next week.
