PM accepted £20,000 so his boy could study

Wyllow3

All he did was accept a space where his son could stay sometimes and study in peace. son, presumably, chose "yes"

And we cannot know and is it fair to judge what his feelings were about needing to do this

Then someone came along and decided it had to have monetary value, oh, call it a cash donation, and oh here we go again. Same old same old.

There is an alternative to yes.
It's called no.
Or no thankyou, best not.

Why would you say no to something that would help your child to study?
It's not a big deal, even.

Allira

dayvidg

I am slightly puzzled - did these terrible journalists not realise that the Starmer's were living somewhere else? Did they camp outside an empty house for weeks?

Perhaps they left Starmer Jnr at home alone while the rest of them moved into Number 10.

Eazybee 10.53;It was said on Today that he and family had to move into Lord Alli's 'accommodation' so that his son could study for his examinations. No price was mentioned.

Allira

Wyllow3

All he did was accept a space where his son could stay sometimes and study in peace. son, presumably, chose "yes"

And we cannot know and is it fair to judge what his feelings were about needing to do this

Then someone came along and decided it had to have monetary value, oh, call it a cash donation, and oh here we go again. Same old same old.

There is an alternative to yes.
It's called no.
Or no thankyou, best not.

But why should he say no thank you?

It wasn't a donation, it was an offer to help his son, the son clearly wanted to, this is going too far into private family life to dig out what isn't dirt at all - really scraping the barrel.

and clearly we aren't - well gfs hope so - going to question the son as to why this was important for him.

The O/P sound be ashamed - it wasn't a donation, and dragging KS's son into it, which is what this is, so wrong

So, if someone invites the Starmers for dinner, he should say no, because the offer isn't available to others???

I've heard it all, now.

Ha ha 😝 MissA

Non story move on. Some posters are coming across as fault finding and stupid. Nmoney exchanged hands and it was a friend helping a friend.

Yes, very succinctly put.

MissAdventure

A four finger one, Allira?

No, two fingers, am not made of money🤭

makes another mental note----rich, but tight with it-

In the UK GCSE’s ran from 9th May to the 19th of June.
The election was called on 22nd May.
Starmer junior had at the most 27 days until his exams ended.
It must have been very lovely accommodation.

I'd have beautiful accommodation if I had the money.

It would be a bit daft living in squalor.

If I were a rich man… durdle durdle durdle door 🚪
Tra la la

I'm not sure why some people think this is an issue. It was declared, not lied about and it seems perfectly ok to me to give child somewhere secret to study. I live near a cabinet minister. You wouldn't believe the security cars, dodgy looking 'journalists" hanging around and harassing anyone going in and out who are there on occasions. The children have to have escorts and cars to take them anywhere.

Of course, this is perfectly normal for a millionaire to use cash from donations.

The tribalism and double standards in here are very amusing.

Imagine if this had been Rishi Sunak. Would you have supported him? No of course not. And neither would I.

I'm not so filled with this weird attitude that one's favoured political party is akin to supporting a football team.

maddyfour

I just heard something about this today, for the first time.
Clearly something happened, but precisely what, it’s difficult to say. It appears money changed hands, but from who to who is unclear. If it was a simple matter of moving to a different house, then money wouldn’t be involved, unless of course, it was a rental.
I guess we’ll find out more soon.

Money did not change hands. Starmer was “lent” a home, he declared it, as he should, and as in all donations/gifts declared a financial amount was allocated to it, calculated based on private rental.

Another day another wrong doing.The offer was declared what is all the fuss about. It's beginning to look as if some Grans spend their time fault finding.

MissAdventure

I'd have beautiful accommodation if I had the money.

It would be a bit daft living in squalor.

No, you should live in squalor if you are supporting the LP, and so should all LP MPs and the PM apparently!

What a load of tripe!!! Who cares???

Rekarie

Of course, this is perfectly normal for a millionaire to use cash from donations.

The tribalism and double standards in here are very amusing.

Imagine if this had been Rishi Sunak. Would you have supported him? No of course not. And neither would I.

I'm not so filled with this weird attitude that one's favoured political party is akin to supporting a football team.

If this had been Sunak I’d have thought it no big deal. And I think it’s no big deal now.

Why do you suppose everyone but you has double standards?

Well if he farted it would be the wrong musical note to those that feel the need to put him down at every opportunity

westendgirl

Another day another wrong doing.The offer was declared what is all the fuss about. It's beginning to look as if some Grans spend their time fault finding.

Well more succinctly the press/media are fault finding and nitpicking in a way unseen.

Oh you are so funny!

Can anyone remember the constant anti Tory debate on here?. It was endless. I criticised them as well
Please don't think I'm a Conservative voter.

Do look at the Guardian article which tells us Keir Starmer has had 100 grand of freebies. Even more than Boris!

The cost of the accommodation was estimated at £20,000 when declared. That makes it some gift.

Some really serious nit picking going on and over what exactly - a friend offering somewhere to stay for a short period? It was all declared unlike many many many Tory “freebies”. BJ had corrupt hand outs and is still expecting others to foot his lifestyle. This topic really sounds akin to GB News or the Sun or the Daily Mail reading fraternity.