Last night, Guido revealed that Keir Starmer may have breached electoral law not once, but twice, all while enjoying Lord Alli’s swanky £18 million penthouse. Starmer’s nomination papers claim he lived in Holborn and St. Pancras, but we know he was holed up in Alli’s pad over in the Cities of London and Westminster. He claimed he moved so his son could study for his exams —though even those dates don’t add up. If true, this little arrangement wouldn’t be counted in Labour’s general election expenses… unless, of course, Starmer was using it for a bit of campaigning on the side…
Now others are starting to smell blood. On BBC Question Time, Reform UK’s chairman Zia Yusuf weighed in, saying:
“There is now news just hitting the wires a few hours ago that potentially the Prime Minister has breached electoral law by misstating where his residence was… he was talking about moving to Lord Alli’s apartment apparently because [of] his son but if you spend time there overnight potentially there is a case to be had.”
The sheer hypocrisy of Starmer, who berated the Tories for breaching Covid guidance and hammered them on declaring donations improperly is one thing that cannot be ignored. Though if Starmer broke electoral law, the position of the so-called “forensic lawyer” would be shakier than ever. Zia pressed Labour MP Nick Thomas-Symonds last night, asking, “if it is the case that Starmer breached electoral law, would you call on him to resign?” Nick didn’t have an answer…
Speaking about Morgan McSweeney’s resignation, skills minister Jacqui Smith told Times Radio:
“It’s clearly not ideal but I do understand why Morgan, as he explained, decided to resign at this point. But the important thing as you say is how we both tackle what this Epstein and Mandelson scandal has identified and also how we make sure, as the prime minister is absolutely determined to, that we continue the change that the country needs and that’s what I’m focusing on this morning.”