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Angela Rayner given more than £2,000 worth of free clothes from luxury brand_l

The Labour firebrand received the items from designer brand ME+EM.

Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner is the latest Labour politician to receive free clothes (Image: Getty)

Angela Rayner was given more than £2,000 worth of free clothes, it has emerged.

The Deputy Prime Minister received clothing worth £2,230 from luxury brand ME+EM, according to the Register of Members’ Interests.

The Ashton-under-Lyne MP bagged the gift from the company, which has close ties to Labour, just a week before the General Election.

She was spotted in ME+EM outfits three days after Labour’s victory on July 4, including a £550 green trouser suit.

The brand was created by Clare Hornby, whose husband Johnny Hornby masterminded Tony Blair’s 2001 campaign.

Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner wears a £550 green trouser suit from ME EM (Image: Getty)

The revelation comes as Sir Keir Starmer is at the centre of a clothes donations row.

His wife, Lady Victoria Starmer, received £5,000 of clothes, personal shopping and alterations from high-profile Labour donor Lord Alli.

But the Prime Minister is alleged to have broken parliamentary rules by failing to declare donations of clothing within the designated time limit.

Lord Alli’s involvement with the Labour leader has already proved controversial after it emerged he was given a Downing Street security pass without apparently having a government role.

Sir Keir has also accepted more than £20,000 in clothes and glasses from the backer.

But he has faced accusations of hypocrisy after previously criticising Boris Johnson for accepting wallpaper from a Tory donor.

He has also come under criticism for the freebies amid a backlash over the Labour Government’s decision to strip all but the country’s poorest pensioners of the winter fuel payment.

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