Politics Unpacked

Should The Starmers Buy Their Own Clothes?

Columnists Hadley Freeman and Patrick Maguire join Hugo Rifkind to discuss Keir Starmer's breach of parliamentary rules in failing to declare that <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/victoria-starmer-keir-wife-clothes-2s35fbgwq" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">clothes were bought for his wife by a Labour donor.</a> Plus, is<a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/ed-davey-lib-dems-can-replace-tories-as-opposition-sxxwwxtq0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Ed Davey ambitious</a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/eight-migrants-die-overnight-crossing-channel-bhw7qfhl8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">what can the government learn from Italy</a>, and why has <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/media/article/columnists-quit-jewish-chronicle-over-inaccurate-articles-vq068d8gj" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hadley stopped writing for the Jewish Chronicle</a>? Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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