Jess Phillips: £16,000 of Clothes “Probably Turned Up At Starmer’s Office”
The government line on successive crony scandals just keeps getting better and better. Home office minister Jess Phillips had the morning round today and managed to come up with a novel explanation for Starmer’s accepting £16,200 in clothes from Lord Alli. Which handily didn’t get declared…
“The truth of is that probably somebody turned up to his office and said ‘oh you know I think you need a fancy suit,
here’s one’ and he probably took it, I don’t know that he was going out and seeking it.”
That line’s sure to help. When Philips was asked why Alli would spend thousands on someone’s suits, her answer was: “Because I think he probably wanted a Labour government.” They made her a minister, remember…
