High gifts 2026-04-12

£107,000 in Gifts: Every Item Declared by Keir Starmer Since Taking Office

£107K+ gifts and hospitality declared by Keir Starmer in the RMFI

Sky News reported on 18 September 2024 that Keir Starmer had declared £107,145 in gifts, hospitality, and benefits in kind on the parliamentary Register of Members’ Financial Interests since the 2019 election. That total was “two-and-a-half times more than any other MP” at the time. The figure has since increased; subsequent reporting (Novara Media, June 2025) documents further declared football hospitality in 2025.

The Register is the official record. It exists precisely so the public can see who is giving what to the people who make their laws.

Among the declared items: clothing and personal-shopping support from Lord Waheed Alli (around £5,000 of clothing for Victoria Starmer declared on 15 September 2024, with a further £16,000 of clothing for Keir Starmer declared on 27 September 2024); £2,435 of eyeglasses from Lord Alli; £20,000 use of Lord Alli’s Covent Garden flat during May to July 2024; multiple Arsenal football tickets; Taylor Swift concert tickets with VIP hospitality; private-box hospitality at sporting events. Each item carries a stated donor and a stated value in the Register.

Lord Alli was the largest single gift-giver. The Times reported on 24 August 2024 that he had been issued a temporary Downing Street security pass shortly after the election, despite holding no formal government role. The pass was subsequently revoked. The Cabinet Office confirmed the revocation following media reporting by the BBC, the Guardian and Sky News in late August and September 2024.

Lord Alli is now under formal investigation by the Lords Commissioner for Standards over alleged unregistered interests linked to Mac (BVI) Limited, a British Virgin Islands company (openDemocracy reporting, 2026).

There is nothing in itself unlawful about accepting a declared gift. The Register is the mechanism Parliament has chosen to keep this in the open. The size of the total is itself the public-interest fact: £107,145 in personal gifts and hospitality is a notable amount for a Leader of the Opposition and then Prime Minister to receive in the period covered. Readers may make of that what they will.

Sources: Register of Members’ Financial Interests (Keir Starmer entry); Sky News, 18 September 2024 (£107,145 total); The Times, 24 August 2024 (Downing Street security pass); BBC, Guardian and Sky News reporting on the Downing Street security pass, September 2024; openDemocracy, 2026 (Lords Commissioner for Standards investigation of Lord Alli over Mac (BVI) Limited interests).