Rekarie
Oh give over, LizzieDrip! Who are you to tell me what I do?
And I actually heard Keir Starmer explaining this to a Radio 4 journalist.
Believe me, the Sky headline basically came from the horse's mouth.
Go and listen to it
“https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn9d17ljlvro.amp”
“He declared Lord Alli had donated several weeks' accommodation, which is recorded as being worth more than £20,000, in the register of MPs' interests.
Sir Keir told BBC Radio 5 Live: "I had promised him faithfully that I would give him an environment in which he could calmly get on, his one chance to do his GCSEs, and therefore we relocated somewhere else - a gift which we then allocated a sum of money to.
Sir Keir told the BBC Today programme: "Somebody then offered me accommodation where we could do that, and I took it up. And it was the right thing to do. It didn't cost the taxpayer a penny."
He said he felt passionately about the issue, admitting that for his daughter, who is 13, and his son, the situation was difficult.
"Sometimes what sits behind these are human explanations," he told BBC 5 Live, particularly in the "hurly burly" of an election campaign - but things had changed now Labour was in government.
He told Today's Nick Robinson that he'd accepted the donation for clothing in opposition, during a "busy election campaign".
Just stop now, Starmer was NOT PM when the “gifts” were accepted. The accommodation wasn’t “paid for” so no £20,000+ was passed across to him. It was “costed” as are all “gifts” for declaration purposes prior to him actually becoming PM.
It could not be clearer!
