Sue Gray may have moved on, but Sir Keir Starmer’s freebie headache isn’t going anywhere. Now former prime minister Boris Johnson has lashed out at the Labour PM over his decision to accept gifts clothing, hospitality and glasses – adding that Starmer must be ‘worth a bob or two’ due to his prestigious legal career. Indeed…

It transpired over the last few weeks that Sir Keir has claimed £107,000 in donations since December 2019, including £4,000 of, er, Taylor Swift tickets. It was hardly a Cruel Summer for Starmer, eh? The Prime Minister eventually paid back over £6,000 worth of hospitality – but even that has not managed to squash the story, and Johnson’s latest intervention won’t help matters much. The former Tory leader fumed on LBC this morning:

I want you to know, I have no donors paying for my suits. Or spectacles. Who pays for your spectacles? You pay for your spectacles, don’t you? It’s unbelievable. I mean, the guy [Sir Keir], he’s a silk, right? I mean, he must be worth a bob or two. Why has he got some guy paying for his spectacles?

Oo er. BoJo continued to rage about Starmer accepting Lord Alli’s donations when he was ‘on a perfectly good salary from the government anyway’, insisting:

You know, that looks greedy, right? But if you then give the guy a pass to No. 10, that looks corrupt. And so I just don’t get it. I don’t know why he’s still wearing those spectacles.Well, apart from the fact he can’t see. He can’t see what a mess he’s making of things.

Shots fired. Not that Johnson is best placed to make judgements on the Labour leader’s lifestyle – after he himself accepted donations towards his wedding, the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat and, um, just under £30,000 of food. But as a number of politicians have pointed out, the outrage directed at Sir Keir is really fulled by Labour’s regular insistence over the election period that the party is morally superior to their Conservative opponents – and look how that turned out. Rules for thee, but not for me!