Bridget Phillipson tells Sky News the money paid for two events, but denies one ahead of her 40th was a birthday party.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has defended receiving a donation of £14,000 from a Labour peer embroiled in a freebies row, saying it was 'declared properly and thoroughly'. An article in the Mail on Sunday claimed the minister had used some of the money from Lord Waheed Alli to pay for her 40th birthday party.
It also emerged Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Chancellor Rachel Reeves have received donations used for purchasing clothes by long-standing Labour peer Lord Alli. All three, who declared the donations on their register of interests, have now vowed to no longer accept funds in the future to pay for clothing.
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