That Starmer fella...

Stone Island aint cheap

I thought Corbyn gooners preferred Ralphie..

Imagine the conversation when Alli decided to tell Starmer he thinks his wife's clothes look shit, but no worries, he's got it covered.

The whole thing is so awks.

I can’t imagine how horrendously they must’ve all been dressing before they got their glow ups.

Who paid for that track suit when he was leaving his polling station, then? I gave him so much credit for that fit.

Is this Alli guy a stylist? Is he on grailed?

Controversial opinion: women in the media are held to a different standard and need nice clothes. Provided things are declared properly I don't see it as any different to paying for research or data analysis.

I agree to a point (for men too in leadership positions) however I guess you’d probably be more skeptical of research or analysis provided ‘free’.

Good point. I guess I was thinking more of voter / electoral analysis etc.

MiFID II covers that for the private sector.

The British government (spoken in a west Belfast accent)..

Keef...

Many of the people in this thread are paid more than the PM

This forum has displayed a lot of middle-class sensible energy recently, did any forumites get interviewed in the semi-recent Graun article, where those on £100k+ were complaining about the amount of tax they pay, and are 'really' struggling to afford the fees to send the little ones to private schools?

I’m not familiar with it but I am often offered free survey and analysis services, generally with a view to selling me hardware.

Pretty neat little attack line for the right wing papers this.

If they don't spend a lot of money on clothes you attack them for looking like shit (they did it to Corbyn)

If they take donations you attack them for that and the far left will help you do it

If you're right wing and rich like Sunak, £20k is pissing in the wind, so your opposition can't hit you with the same argument in return

Starmer shouldn't accept any of this free stuff. Anyone who has followed politics for the past 40 years or so must realise that the right wing press will crucify any Labour politician who steps even marginally out of line. Double standards are the norm and no tory politician would face any grief over something like this. How did Starmer not understand this? He seems baffled that people are pissed off about this and just how bad it looks. Perhaps some spad could suggest that he is a bit more circumspect in future?

I feel like on a salary of about £160k you can probably buy some ok clothes yourself

neat little attack line for the right wing papers this.

Marina Hyde's piece was in the Guardian.

n/m

Let's see Starmer's DRIP at conference.

True. But he might be putting loads into his pension, so who knows how much of his £8k net is in cash flow.

Out of curiosity, what do we think a PMs wife / female MP needs to be spending p/m on clothes to stay under the radar or on the right side of the press. Didn't San-Cam wear tailored M&S gear?

But he might be putting loads into his pension, so who knows how much of his £8k net is in cash flow.

Woe is me, how does he manage ... Hopefully he's also putting some aside for his £40k kitchen

Not a bad ROI

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Out of curiosity, what do we think a PMs wife / female MP needs to be spending p/m on clothes to stay under the radar or on the right side of the press.

Yeah I wonder. Must cost at least a hundred quid a week if you're not allowed to wear the same thing twice

Once in a while, and if she did it was discretely leaked to friendly journos.

It's a bit of a weird one. She works as an occupational health worker for the NHS, so you'd assume not a huge salary, but is also expected to meet world leaders and attend state banquets, etc with all that is required of the appearances there.

Should her husband be buying her clothes for these functions? The suggestion that there should be an allowance for this kind of thing was roundly pooh poohed when it was brought up.