Sir Keir Starmer has accepted donations totalling around £39,000 from Labour donor Lord Waheed Alli since December 2019

Keir Starmer caved to pressure following days of criticism over gifts from wealthy donors and will no longer take cash for clothes - along with Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves

Neither Sir Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner, nor Rachel Reeves will accept such donations for clothes in the future, the PA news agency understands.

Sir Keir Starmer, alongside the Chancellor Rachel Reeves and his deputy PM Angela Rayner, made the bombshell announcement on Friday evening.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will not accept any more donations to pay for his clothing, a Downing Street source said on Friday, following widespread media criticism over thousands of pounds of gifts he has received.

Starmer has come in for fierce criticism after it emerged Lord Alli, a Labour peer and millionaire, had given him £16,435 of work clothing and glasses worth £2,400 before the election, as well as £5,000-worth of clothes for the PM’s wife, Victoria.

Right-wing commentator, Chris Rose accused Sir Keir of hypocrisy, digging up a clip of the Labour leader grilling Boris Johnson at PMQs when it emerged the then-PM and his wife had accepted a large sum from a Tory donor to renovate the No. 10 flat.

Keir Starmer will no longer accept donations to pay for clothes, it’s understood, following a row over £100,000 worth of freebies given to the Prime Minister. Deputy PM Angela Rayner and chancellor Rachel Reeves will also not accept such gifts.