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No. 10 change tack on ‘wardrobe-gate’

21 September 2024

4:34 AM

21 September 2024

4:34 AM

A week is a long time in politics. Keir Starmer began the week sending out his senior ministers to defend his decision to accept donations of clothing for both himself and his wife Lady Victoria Starmer from Waheed Alli, the Labour peer. On Sunday, David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary, suggested these donations were necessary, for lack of a special clothing budget so the pair could make Britain proud on the world stage.

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