Which Side Does Keir Starmer Dress On?

We are still not yet at the end of the worst first 100 days that any British Government has ever had. You read it here first that Keir Starmer's and his son's stay at Lord Alli's flat must have been worth at least five times more than was declared. Now everyone seems to have noticed. They were there from well before this year's first GCSE exam until well after its last. Anyone would think that one or both of them had been kicked out of the family home.

Nick Smith MP, former Camden Councillor for King's Cross in Starmer's constituency, was a Shadow Minister but was not appointed to the Government. Unlike his wife, Baroness Chapman of Darlington. As an aside, her job of Minister for Latin America and the Caribbean has to be done from the Lords to avoid questioning by Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott. But, as I say, I digress.

Starmer was resident there at the point of nomination, so Alli's address ought to have been the one on Starmer's nomination papers this year. It was not in the constituency, and there would have been voters to whom that would have mattered. Starmer's vote halved anyway, so who knows how low it might have gone if "he [did] not even live here"?

Starmer's declaration of a second £16,000 in clothes from Alli as an office cost was simply a false declaration, such as Rachel Reeves had also made. And the total so far is £32,000 on Starmer's clothes from Alli. I mean, how? Which garments are these? Consistent with decency, let us see them, out of sheer fascination.

If Starmer has indeed had recent, if not ongoing, affairs both with Chapman and with Alli, then that would be nothing unusual in, as it were, such circles. As for taking his son with him to live with Alli, note that the boy, while barely legal, was legally bare.

But far from just wanting a Labour Government, or even just wanting his beau to look nice, Alli funded the attempted coup against Jeremy Corbyn when Corbyn had a personal approval rating, and Labour a poll rating, of which Starmer will never again be able to dream. The fear was not that Corbyn was going to lose, but that he might have won. And having been relatively close to it in its early days, I can assure you that while the Corbyn Project was no nunnery, it had nothing on this.