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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Starmer defends borrowing £18m flat as place for son to study during election

Keir Starmer
Starmer said ‘any parent would have made the same decision’. Photograph: Leon Neal/PA

Keir Starmer has defended borrowing an £18m penthouse flat from the Labour donor Waheed Alli during the election, saying he took the offer so that his son would have a place to study for his GCSEs without having to walk past journalists and protesters outside their family home.

The prime minister brought up the “human” reason for having moved his family out of his Kentish Town house in north London, saying no cash changed hands as a result of the move.

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