to believe Lady Starmer should pay for her own clothes and personal stylists?

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https://news.sky.com/story/starmer-faces-investigation-over-possible-breach-of-parliamentary-rules-after-labour-donor-pays-for-wifes-clothes-13215216

And Keir Starmer should have paid himself for his 'several pairs of glasses' and £19K worth of work clothes? On top of that there was £20K for accommodation for Sir Keir and another 'similar sum' on 'private office' costs.

Purely by coincidence, it seems the donor was given a Downing Street security pass allowing easy access to the corridors of power without any role in government.

And yes, Carrie and Boris Johnson should have paid for their wallpaper and hampers too, that is just as sleazy.

Facts do not agree with you
https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/opticians/nhs-voucher-values-for-glasses-and-lenses/
https://ineedspex.co.uk/collections/nhs-glasses

There are NHS frames to go with the lenses you can get NHS vouchers for

It is, sadly, expected these days that when a person is elected to a public office such a Prime Minister that their spouse comes as a part of the package, irrespective of whether they want to or not. If that person is representing the UK when accompanying their spouse it isn't unreasonable to make some financial allowance for their appearance, I certainly like Carrie Johnson's idea of renting clothes for highly public occasions. If the PM and spouse are hosting official dinners, do we expect them to pay for the Lidl delivery or is that paid for by the state whereas their regular beans are their own responsibility?
Nancy Reagan complained that when they lived in the White House they were billed monthly for everything, even loo rolls!

In Wales we are already paying £350 a month council tax for standard 270k 4 beds. And our bins are only collected every 6 weeks.

Laughing at the posters trying to paint VS as a hard up NHS worker struggling to afford clothes. And that without her gifted gowns she might have been reduced to going out in her NHS uniform.
It's given me a good chortle!

Apologies… my post was unclear. I meant in terms of how Starmer meant his ‘won’t go private’ statement to be interpreted :)

I don't agree that a 'spouse' is 'part of the package'. Maybe for occasional state dinners and the like, but nobody really expects to see the PM's partner on a regular basis. Certainly they would not expect this of a male partner,

That being said, a modest allowance for clothes for the PM's wife spouse is reasonable enough. Getting 'gifts' of clothes before you are even the PM's wife is not.

Yawn.

At least he's put a stop to what EVERY government has been doing for years now that the public have shown their distaste.

Only the clothes or all of it?