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Keir Starmer suggests he will continue accepting donors’ gifts

Keir and Victoria Starmer are welcomed into 10 Downing Street after the general election
Keir and Victoria Starmer enter 10 Downing Street after the general election. The parliamentary commissioner says there will be no investigation of Lord Alli’s gifts of clothes to Victoria Starmer. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/Reuters

Keir Starmer has suggested he will continue to accept gifts from the Labour peer Lord Alli, as he rejected accusations that he had not followed parliamentary rules relating to gifts of clothes to his wife.

The prime minister said there was a “massive difference between declarations and corruption”, and said he did not accept the notion that taxpayers should fund clothes for senior politicians and their spouses.

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