Keir Starmer’s never-ending list of freebies is the gift that keeps on giving for opposition parties. Since becoming Labour leader in 2019, Starmer has managed to rack up an eye-watering £107,000 in gifts—the highest of any MP and more than double second-place Lucy Powell’s measly £40,000. Cue Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, sent out this morning to do some pre-conference damage control. He tried…

Speaking to a frosty Kay Burley on Sky News, Reynolds defended Starmer’s lavish perks, arguing that his boss is in a “high-pressure job” and deserves some downtime—like, say, attending Taylor Swift concerts, which Reynolds bizarrely described as “major cultural sporting events.” When Burley pressed him on Sue Gray’s hefty salary and Starmer’s growing list of gifts, all while pensioners are losing their winter fuel allowance, Reynolds reached for the classic Labour excuse: the “black hole in the public finances”. If in doubt, blame the deficit…

Meanwhile, Starmer claims that he had to accept posh box seats at football matches because security wouldn’t let him sit in the regular stands. Funny how that wasn’t an issue for Rishi…