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Keir Starmer suggests he will continue accepting donors’ gifts
PM rejects claims he breached rules as he defends system of MPs declaring donations
Keir Starmer has suggested he will continue to accept gifts from the Labour peer Lord Alli, as he rejected accusations that he had not followed parliamentary rules relating to gifts of clothes to his wife.
The prime minister said there was a “massive difference between declarations and corruption”, and said he did not accept the notion that taxpayers should fund clothes for senior politicians and their spouses.
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