Jess Phillips said the scandal of PM Starmer's accepting of more freebies than any other MP is 'not important' compared to many of the other issues facing the country.
A minister today admitted she 'worries about how everything looks' as she defended Keir Starmer from criticism for taking over £100,000 worth of freebies.
Asked whether she would accept space in a corporate box for football matches, as Sir Keir has done, she replied: 'I don't like the Arsenal.' Jess Phillips insisted the PM had 'lived entirely by the rules' that apply to MPs as she was quizzed about the furore during a round of interviewsThe ex-minister said the Labour leader was making it 'worse' by 'doubling down' and trying to justify a donor paying for thousands of pounds' worth of clothes for himself and his wife.
'Let me tell you, it feels like he's breathing down my neck to make sure that we're doing things right in my department,' she added.She added: 'We get invited to theatre performances and things, and you go along and you support the arts, and people want you to go to their things because they want it supported.
Baroness Harman said the Labour leader was making it 'worse' by 'doubling down' and trying to justify a donor paying for thousands of pounds' worth of clothes for himself and his wife'But of course I worry about how things look and I want people to feel like the government is having to make some very very difficult decisions, but fundamentally is working to try and make things better.
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