The issue of donations to senior Labour Party politicians threatened to overshadow events at last week's conference in Liverpool.

The freebies row surrounding Sir Keir Starmer intensified as it emerged that Lord Alli gifted another £16,000 worth of clothes to the PM.

Lord Alli was first appointed to Lords by Tony Blair in 1998 and fought to repeal Thatcher’s notorious Section 28 laws

When Keir Starmer entered 10 Downing Street as the UK’s new prime minister on July 5, the customary line-up of officials and aides was there to clap him in following the Labour Party’s resounding electoral success.

Lord Waheed Alli has come under scrutiny for donating large sums to senior ministers, including Sir Keir Starmer.

The SNP have asked for an investigation into donations to Keir Starmer and Labour MPs by Lord Waheed Alli. In a letter to the standards commissioners in the House of Commons and House of Lords, the independent adviser on ministers’ interests Sir Laurie Magnus and the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case,

Sir Keir Starmer has received a further £16,000 worth of clothes which he incorrectly registered as donations — on top of clothing gifts already reported — in revelations that are likely to raise further questions about the prime minister’s commitment to transparency.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer received an additional £16,000 worth of clothes from the Labour peer, Lord Alli, it has emerged. The donations, first reported by the Guardian, were initially declared as money for his private office as leader of the opposition.