“Labour will end the chaos of sleaze,” the party’s election-winning manifesto thundered. The nation, Keir Starmer promised, would “turn the page” after years of Conservative scandal.
Yet, after less than three months in office, the prime minister is facing a slew of cronyism allegations of his own. A former banker was briefly appointed to the Treasury after donating £20,000 to the chancellor, Rachel Reeves. Staffers at Starmer’s in-house thinktank, Labour Together, have been handed supposedly apolitical civil service roles.
