Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has paid back over £6,000 ($12,000 NZD) in gifts and hospitality received since taking up the role after a controversy over donations.
Starmer is covering the cost of six Taylor Swift tickets, four tickets to the races, and a designer clothing rental agreement favoured by his wife, Lady Victoria Starmer.
UK correspondent says Starmer is under pressure to improve transparency after he and some other MPs faced criticism over accepting freebies from wealthy donors.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
UK corresponding to in the Brady is with us the
Savening High Inda.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, Jack, good to speak to you again.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You too, Kiyostama is going to pay back twelve thousand
bucks in hospitality, but keep all of those tens of
thousands of pounds in donated clothes.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah, I mean this has been rumbling on for a
couple of weeks now, Jack. So basically he went to
see Taylor Swift with his wife in a very nice
corporate box. He went to a couple of England soccer
matches at Wembley, and there was other horse racing hospitality
as well.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Look, if you're the.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Prime minister of any country, you get invited to nice
places and because of the security arrangements they have to
have you in these boxes. Now, it's been rumbling on
for a long time, this story. So Starmer has come
out today in an effort to basically draw a line
under everything.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
He's going to pay back twelve thousand.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Dollars for all of the tickets he's had since becoming
Prime Minister less than one hundred days ago.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
What he's not paying back is the clothing donations.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
From a man called Lord Ali, millionaire donor to the
labor party and they reckon. It's somewhere in the region
of about eighty thousand n Z in clothes that's been spent,
so stammer. If you ever see him on TV and
he's looking good, it's a man called Lord Ali who's
been buying the clothes. It's not a great look, to
be honest, but look after where we've been for fourteen
(01:19):
years under conservative rule here, he's only just picking up
where the other lot left off.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I mean, does seem like an extremely expensive amount of
clothes eighty thousand dollars You never need to buy an
item clothing for the rest of his life. Now, Kate
has invited a teenage cancer pation to take pictures of
William at work.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, this is a lovely story. We know the Princess
of Wales is a keen amateur photographer and she heard
about a young girl who's sixteen called Liz Hatton and
she has a very rare and incurable form of cancer
and that's very very aggressive and doctors have told Liz
that she has between six months and three years to live,
and she's a very keen photographer. So William and Kate
(02:04):
basically heard about Liz and her on her boocket list.
Her absolute dream list of things to do was to
do some royal photography, so quick as a flash, Kate
invited her to Windsor Castle. William was overseeing investitures where
people get knighthoods and OBEs and mbes, and Liz was
invited along to photograph proceedings and then there's a private
(02:25):
family meeting with William and Kate afterwards. So they have
absolutely made her day and the Princess of Wales goat
her a huge hug and that makes many of the
papers today just beautiful to sing.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And Inda, will that cruise ship EVA leave Ireland.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'm starting to worry for these people. I mean, Belfast is.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
A lovely little town, but you do it in the
weekend they've been there. May thirtieth was the day they
arrived in Belfast. So this is this perpetual cruise. They
go around the world and then they start all over again,
and you buy your cabin for life. And I honestly
could think of anything worse apart from being stuck on
that ship forever, being stuck in Belfast for four months.
(03:06):
As much as I love Ireland, but anyway, They did
leave yesterday and they got about an hour out into
the Irish Sea and there was some issue with paperwork
and they dropped anchor in Belfast Lock and they're still
there now. The whisper is they're going to leave in
about fourteen hours time. I'm a little bit concerned for them.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I think there could be some incredible reality TV show
with hidden TV cameras and it's all going to be
broadcast on Irish TV on April Fool's Day.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, you do something wonder if it's getting a bit
Lord of the Flies on board, don't you.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
That's why they're worrying me, Jack.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Honestly, you know I love my family, but I couldn't
go on a cruise for two weeks with my family
because I know I do their heads in.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, but there we are. Yeah, very good.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Hey, thanks Ininda. We appreciate it. That's in the Brady
a UK Correspondent. It is just coming out to seven
minutes to seven
Speaker 3 (03:56):
For more from Hither Duke Leassy Alan Drive, listen live
to news talks It be from four pm weekdays, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
UK corresponding to in the Brady is with us the
Savening High Inda.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, Jack, good to speak to you again.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You too, Kiyostama is going to pay back twelve thousand
bucks in hospitality, but keep all of those tens of
thousands of pounds in donated clothes.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah, I mean this has been rumbling on for a
couple of weeks now, Jack. So basically he went to
see Taylor Swift with his wife in a very nice
corporate box. He went to a couple of England soccer
matches at Wembley, and there was other horse racing hospitality
as well.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Look, if you're the.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Prime minister of any country, you get invited to nice
places and because of the security arrangements they have to
have you in these boxes. Now, it's been rumbling on
for a long time, this story. So Starmer has come
out today in an effort to basically draw a line
under everything.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
He's going to pay back twelve thousand.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Dollars for all of the tickets he's had since becoming
Prime Minister less than one hundred days ago.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
What he's not paying back is the clothing donations.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
From a man called Lord Ali, millionaire donor to the
labor party and they reckon. It's somewhere in the region
of about eighty thousand n Z in clothes that's been spent,
so stammer. If you ever see him on TV and
he's looking good, it's a man called Lord Ali who's
been buying the clothes. It's not a great look, to
be honest, but look after where we've been for fourteen
(01:19):
years under conservative rule here, he's only just picking up
where the other lot left off.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I mean, does seem like an extremely expensive amount of
clothes eighty thousand dollars You never need to buy an
item clothing for the rest of his life. Now, Kate
has invited a teenage cancer pation to take pictures of
William at work.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, this is a lovely story. We know the Princess
of Wales is a keen amateur photographer and she heard
about a young girl who's sixteen called Liz Hatton and
she has a very rare and incurable form of cancer
and that's very very aggressive and doctors have told Liz
that she has between six months and three years to live,
and she's a very keen photographer. So William and Kate
(02:04):
basically heard about Liz and her on her boocket list.
Her absolute dream list of things to do was to
do some royal photography, so quick as a flash, Kate
invited her to Windsor Castle. William was overseeing investitures where
people get knighthoods and OBEs and mbes, and Liz was
invited along to photograph proceedings and then there's a private
(02:25):
family meeting with William and Kate afterwards. So they have
absolutely made her day and the Princess of Wales goat
her a huge hug and that makes many of the
papers today just beautiful to sing.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And Inda, will that cruise ship EVA leave Ireland.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'm starting to worry for these people. I mean, Belfast is.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
A lovely little town, but you do it in the
weekend they've been there. May thirtieth was the day they
arrived in Belfast. So this is this perpetual cruise. They
go around the world and then they start all over again,
and you buy your cabin for life. And I honestly
could think of anything worse apart from being stuck on
that ship forever, being stuck in Belfast for four months.
(03:06):
As much as I love Ireland, but anyway, They did
leave yesterday and they got about an hour out into
the Irish Sea and there was some issue with paperwork
and they dropped anchor in Belfast Lock and they're still
there now. The whisper is they're going to leave in
about fourteen hours time. I'm a little bit concerned for them.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I think there could be some incredible reality TV show
with hidden TV cameras and it's all going to be
broadcast on Irish TV on April Fool's Day.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, you do something wonder if it's getting a bit
Lord of the Flies on board, don't you.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
That's why they're worrying me, Jack.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Honestly, you know I love my family, but I couldn't
go on a cruise for two weeks with my family
because I know I do their heads in.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, but there we are. Yeah, very good.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Hey, thanks Ininda. We appreciate it. That's in the Brady
a UK Correspondent. It is just coming out to seven
minutes to seven
Speaker 3 (03:56):
For more from Hither Duke Leassy Alan Drive, listen live
to news talks It be from four pm weekdays, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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