Sir Keir Starmer is off to New York and all but the party nerds are drifting away from Liverpool and the Labour party conference. The good news for the PM is that hardly anyone is around for the union debate about the winter fuel payment; the bad is that he’s still dogged by his very own donations scandal. His post conference interview should have been about the global crisis unfolding in Lebanon but he had to take the time to explain away another donation from Lord Alli, this time about the use of one of his homes for young Starmer to revise for GCSEs.
“It was the right thing to do. It didn’t cost the taxpayer a penny”, he said. Except it happened to be a gift of the same man who paid for Lady Starner’s frocks, for Sir Keir’s suits and specs and for Deputy PM Angela Rayner’s striking outfits. On the moral compass register, you can’t imagine Gordon Brown, Presbyterian minister’s son, doing it.
