Prime minister Keir Starmer to no longer accept donations to pay for clothes, Sky News understands

Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer will no longer accept donations in the future to pay for clothes, Sky News understands.

Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner also announced they would take the same approach moving forward.

The decision by the prime minister, chancellor and deputy prime minister follows scrutiny of Sir Keir Starmer and his wife for accepting donations.

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[paulb]

Like a partner who vows never to cheat again, they just work harder at trying to hide it

[seniorlizardo]

How's about no "donations" period for any members of Parliament,

[ladydilbert]

Notice it's just clothes? Do they really think we're daft?

[count]

If he believes and has stated he has done nothign wrong why make a press statement that he and his cronies will no longer do this?

[KG]

Starmer is an absolute arse..if this wasn't put on the media.. they would still be happy to take anything that was handed to him.

[gailnevill]

Starmer, Reeves and Raynor are an absolute disgrace

[douglasgordon]

its not about clothing he shouldnt be getting any sort of freebies at all

[janet]

Who will believe anything these traitors say.

[BossMan-ct]

Wow, how brave of him to stop accepting donations now that he’s been caught having already received over £100k. Again so brave & noble of him.

The elderly can freeze while he’s warm in his suits.

[anthonymathews]

As an MP or the PM he should not receive anything that could be a bribe. That goes for all of them. We saw what they did with reference to their expenses in 2008/9 nearly every one of them were cheating including the PM. Only 4 went to prison???? They were not the worst offenders.

[janetjennison]

But he is still accepting the dinghys.

[chineguy]

The fact he thought it acceptable in the first place tells us all we need to know about him.

[marianmcshane]

It’s too late now. The hypocrisy is intolerable. They need to resign.

[cototp]

The one thing starmer should accept is that he is not fit to be the PM of the uk and resign.accept that the population wont complain.

[mackib]

It’s seems there are no bounds to the level of how much he is willing to take the piss out of this country n it’s people…

[rojavida]

So it was OK until people noticed. Exactly how a criminal would react.

[seamusoflatcap]

He and his wife not only had their snouts in the trough, but both front trotters as well. We've been here before, with the Blairs. Add in Two Jags Prescott and it's the same old Liebour. Pretend they're socialists until there's money and freebies and hey presto!, instant capitalists.

[EdBrinton]

Whoever voted for him needs to apologise

[dangraham]

They should never have accepted them in the first place. Who let someone else buy your clothes?

[colinnicholson]

But he will accept money to pay for anything else. Politicians should not be allowed to accept money or gifts from anyone.