Tory MP rages at Starmer over clothing donation row: 'Buy your own clothes!'

Georgia Pearce

By Georgia Pearce


Published: 17/09/2024

- 07:35

Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell has described Labour as a “government of self-service” after it was revealed both Sir Keir and Lady Starmer had clothes paid for by a Labour donor.

Speaking on GB News he said: “I want our Prime Minister, whoever it is, to look good, but if you're a multi-millionaire, you can pay for your own clothes.

“When we have a government that is doing so much harm, particularly to the elderly people, cutting the winter fuel allowance and all the other things that are coming down the line which are going to affect them, the look of a Labour Prime Minister actually getting cash to pay for his spectacles and suits, and then we find out his wife has been doing the same, I think it's utterly shameful.

“And I think a lot of people who voted Labour on the 4 July are going to be regretting doing so today.

“I don't like saying that about our Prime Minister, but it is utterly hypocritical that all those years Labour would throw as much mud at the Conservatives as they could - and okay, a lot of mistakes were made under the last government.

“But this was meant to be a government of service. Who are they serving? They're serving their own. They’re looking after their own interests. This is not a government of service. It's been a government of shambles so far, and now we see it's a government of self service.

“I think the British people are growing tired of this government very quickly.

“Wallpaper is static. It's in Downing Street in a government building. You can’t take the wallpaper with you. Suits and spectacles you can. It’s totally different, there is no comparison.

“These people are supposed to be caring, sharing socialists. They're meant to be looking after the working class. They're meant to be the party of the people. But they're not.

“You come to Romford, the average man and woman in the street. They are incandescent with what this government is doing. They didn't vote for this government.

“And [Labour] are hypocritical. They spent 14 years hammering a Conservative government, which, by the way, left the country, the economics of the country in a far stronger state with the fastest growing economy in the G7.

“All credit to Sir Keir, he won this humongous Labour majority. But he also is the Prime Minister with the lowest national share of the vote of any Prime Minister ever. He doesn't have a mandate in that sense."

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