Labour freebies row deepens as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Sue Gray enjoyed hundreds of pounds-worth of hospitality tickets to several football matches _ Hieuuk
Sue Gray enjoyed hundreds of pounds-worth of hospitality tickets to several football matches, it was reported last night.
The Prime Minister’s chief of staff received tickets to the North London derby at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in April and another Premier League football fixture at the same venue a month before, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Details of the two new freebies come after The Mail on Sunday revealed Ms Gray, Sir Keir Starmer Foreign Secretary David Lammy shared lavish hospitality in a corporate box at Tottenham Hotspur to watch the side’s 1-0 loss to Arsenal last month.
The Telegraph reported that Ms Gray first accepted matchday hospitality from Tottenham Hotspur during the club’s 3-1 win against Crystal Palace in March.
This was followed by a match in which Spurs lost 3-2 to Arsenal at the same stadium the next month, bringing the number of match days she has enjoyed hospitality at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to at least three.
The Prime Minister’s chief of staff, Sue Gray, received tickets to the North London derby at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in April and another Premier League football fixture at the same venue a month before, according to the Daily Telegraph
Critics say the invites threatens the PM’s impartiality over the planned football regulator, which would have the power to stop teams joining breakaway leagues and to block investment from controversial countries
Details of the two new freebies come after The Mail on Sunday revealed Ms Gray, Sir Keir Starmer Foreign Secretary David Lammy shared lavish hospitality in a corporate box at Tottenham Hotspur last month
Critics say the invites threatens the PM’s impartiality over the planned football regulator, which would have the power to stop teams joining breakaway leagues and to block investment from controversial countries.
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Ms Gray also enjoyed a two-day trip to the networking Braemar Summit in the Scottish Highlands in September last year, days after becoming Sir Keir’s chief of staff.
The event has been nicknamed ‘McDavos’.
It comes amid the growing row over freebies engulfing Sir Keir’s premiership.
On Friday it emerged the PM has accepted £32,000-worth of clothing donations from Labour peer Lord Alli – double the amount he had previously declared.
And on Sunday it was revealed that a second central London property belonging to Lord Alli was made available to the PM and other senior party figures in the run-up to the election.
It comes amid the growing row over freebies engulfing Sir Keir’s premiership. On Friday it emerged the PM has accepted £32,000-worth of clothing donations from Labour peer Lord Alli – double the amount he had previously declared
The Georgian townhouse in Soho was used for strategy meetings, while the PM and his family moved into a nearby £18million townhouse in Covent Garden – also owned by the peer – during the election.
The scandal sparked the resignation of now-independent MP Rosie Duffield on Saturday, who said ‘the sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice’ of Sir Keir’s administration ‘are off the scale’.
The PM has received many more freebies than any other MP since becoming Labour leader, receiving £107,145-worth since 2019, including for dozens of football matches and concerts.
