Sir Keir Starmer accepted £20k accommodation freebie so his son could study for GCSEs

SIR Keir Starmer accepted a £20,000 accommodation freebie — truthful his lad could survey for his GCSEs.

The Prime Minister defended utilizing the luxury home, owned by semipermanent party donor Lord Alli.

The PM said that helium had promised his lad helium would find him determination to survey distant from the media attraction during the general election campaign.

He told the BBC: “Somebody past offered maine accommodation wherever we could bash that.

“I took that up and it was the close happening to do.”

But erstwhile Cabinet curate Esther McVey said the enactment was registered from the extremity to May to the mediate of July, erstwhile the exams were from May 9 to June 19.

She added: “Unfortunately for Starmer the dates don’t tally.”

The Tories person besides challenged Sir Keir seemingly utilizing Lord Alli’s Central London Covent Garden pad.

He utilized it to film a 2021 governmental broadcast reacting to Covid regulations — arsenic good arsenic aboriginal making a tribute to the precocious Queen.

A Tory spokesperson said: “He should present explicate wherefore helium didn’t state the usage of Lord Alli’s penthouse for governmental purposes, and wherefore helium was not honorable astir passing disconnected idiosyncratic else’s location arsenic his own.”

No10 insisted Sir Keir did not interruption immoderate lockdown rules by utilizing the flat.