Starmer accepted £76k worth of gifts including football and concert tickets
Sir Keir Starmer and wife Victoria at Taylor Swift's London concert in June - X
Sir Keir Starmer accepted £76,000 in hospitality, clothes and other gifts from British donors during the last parliament, figures show.
The Labour leader, on track to become prime minister on Friday, accepted more than 20 free football match tickets and complimentary concert tickets and clothing.
The five-figure sum is among the highest claimed by any MP in the past five years, an analysis by the Financial Times revealed.
In April, Sir Keir received £16,200 for “work clothing” in addition to £2,485 for “multiple pairs of glasses” from Lord Alli, a Labour peer and a former chairman of Asos.
He was spotted wearing a £500 hoodie from Sandro, a French fashion house, on the first full week of the general election campaign trail.
Mr Starmer and Victoria at the Euro 2020 final between Italy and England at Wembley Stadium in 2021 - John Sibley
Sir Keir is a lifelong fan of Arsenal and has enjoyed complimentary tickets to see them play Manchester United, Manchester United and Porto.
He also received a free ticket to England’s defeat to Italy in the Euro 2020 final, while also attending Adele’s hometown concert at Hyde Park in 2022 and accepting four tickets worth £698 to see Coldplay at Manchester’s Etihad Stadium last summer.
Earlier this month, Sir Keir and his wife Victoria went to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour at Wembley Stadium and were understood to have received free tickets.
Sir Keir has insisted there is no conflict of interest in accepting hospitality from the Premier League, which is opposed to some of the party’s plans to overhaul football regulation.
“That’s why we have a register of declarations for MPs, for exactly that reason,” he said on Monday.
“Everybody, yourself included, can see who donated, what it was for and how much it is, so that you can ensure there’s no conflict of interest, as I would ensure there’s no conflict of interest.”
Starmer with billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe (L), who last month said he was backing Labour, at a Man Utd v Arsenal game in May - PETER POWELL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
In 2022, Sir Keir was found to have breached the MPs’ code of conduct in a “minor and/or inadvertent” way after he failed to register eight interests on time.
These included the use of a directors’ box at Crystal Palace Football Club, where he watched Arsenal slump to a 3-0 defeat on April 4 that year. He did not register the visit until May 5.
He also declared four tickets for Arsenal versus Watford on March 6, 2022, two months after the game, and also declared tickets for his staff for the British Kebab Awards once the deadline had passed.
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