Labour MPs are furious at Sir Keir Starmer over the way the party’s leadership has handled a clothes from donors scandal, GB News host Andrew Pierce said.
Speaking on the channel, Andrew said: “You go into the bars, you go into the fringe meetings. There’s real anger. There’s real frustration.”
“In fact I thought it was quite interesting when Emma Lewell-Buck, the MP I spoke to yesterday here from South Shields, said she’s very disappointed.
“She’s very disappointed with senior ministers taking free clothes. Why do they need freebies, pay for their own clothes.”
Andrew said that he had spoken to MPs in bars etc
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He added: “It’s not just cut through in the country, it’s cut through with the Labour Party because they don’t understand.
“They think the some of the Labour leaders are behaving just like the Tories, as people keep saying to me, same trough different noses in it.
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“So there is a real sense that Labour have made a series of missteps, and it took a long time for them to stop doubling down on it.”
The clothing donations scandal centres on gifts from Labour peer Lord Waheed Alli to Sir Keir Starmer and other senior party figures.
In response to the scandal, Labour has revised its policies on accepting donations.
Senior figures including Starmer, Angela Rayner, and Rachel Reeves have announced they will no longer accept such gifts.
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Andrew also criticised Sir Keir Starmer’s recent speech, suggesting he missed an opportunity to address the controversial winter fuel payment cuts.
He said: “In that speech yesterday I think Keir Starmer missed a trick, Bev, he could have said I really regret that we’re taking the winter fuel away from pensioners, but we have to do it.”
He argued that acknowledging the issue would have demonstrated humility.
Andrew also blasted Starmer’s speech
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Andrew added: “He didn’t do that. He could have. It would have shown a little bit of humility.
“So people watching that would have thought he just doesn’t care because he just doesn’t get it.”
The clothing donations scandal has broader implications for Labour’s image and its efforts to differentiate itself from the Conservatives.