Sir Keir Starmer says his ministers are all about service – but are they serving us or themselves?

WHEN Labour came into power, Sir Keir Starmer’s archetypal words were ones we each wanted to hear.

He told us: “We volition transportation the work of your trust, arsenic we rebuild our country. My authorities volition service you. Politics tin beryllium a unit for bully — we volition amusement that.”

The PM’s get-tough decisions included axing the wintertime substance allowance for 10 cardinal pensioners.

We were told to instrumentality it connected the chin due to the fact that the Tories had near the state with a £22billion achromatic hole that needed filling.

We were told determination was nary alternate and things would get worse earlier they get better.

Basically, the connection was that we each had to knuckle down and spot the Government successful these hard times due to the fact that they were connected a ngo to service and rebuild our country.

But fast-forward 79 days and what person we recovered retired astir this Government?

That portion they were readying to shove pensioners retired successful the cold, they were besides taking hundreds of thousands of pounds successful freebies.

While we person been tightening our belts, they were surviving the precocious life.

We’ve seen gifts of escaped clothes, escaped decorator glasses, free tickets to Taylor Swift gigs, escaped tickets to the Arsenal.

On Friday night, aft being caught retired and facing a immense backlash, Sir Keir had to marque a U-turn.

He enactment an extremity to Wardrobe-gate by vowing that helium and his apical unit would halt taking the freebie apparel and glasses.

But that won’t halt them sticking their hands retired for different freebies.

Labour backer Lord Waheed Alli has handed retired much than £300,000 successful donations to Sir Keir and his elder ministers.

Astoundingly insensitive

The PM utilized Lord Alli’s £18million London penthouse during his No10 campaign.

Starmer’s deputy, Angela Rayner, meanwhile, swanned astir successful Lord Alli’s £2million New York level connected the 56th level of a Manhattan skyscraper.

Sir Keir has declared much gifts than immoderate different large enactment person successful caller times.

His woman hasn’t gone without, either.

Victoria Starmer was fixed a idiosyncratic shopper, apparel and alterations earlier and aft the election.

Angela Rayner has had apparel too, to the tune of £2,230.

And Starmer’s Cabinet person lined up for donations.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy was fixed £12,500 to wage for further staff, Health Secretary Wes Streeting received £14,600 and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband got £10,000 past year.

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson and Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall person had £14,000 and £15,475, respectively.

Sir Keir tried to warrant his actions and said helium “followed the rules” and had been transparent successful declaring the gifts.

But helium seemed to beryllium missing the point.

Playing by the rules doesn’t marque it right.

Sir Keir is simply a multi-millionaire, connected £166,786 a year, who tin spend his ain container astatine the football, and his measure astatine Specsavers.

And astatine a clip of hardship for many, each this largesse looks astoundingly insensitive.

In a precise abbreviated time, the Government appears to person taken our spot and trampled each implicit it.

And I stake each pensioner who is terrified astir turning connected their heating this wintertime agrees.

The PM indispensable look again astatine the promises helium made.

This is simply a authorities that promised to beryllium a unit for bully — not afloat of greed and lacking successful compassion.

Sir Keir says helium and his ministers are each astir service.

But the question is, are they serving america oregon themselves?

Chesney’s each unneurotic a bully laugh, I reckon

CHESNEY HAWKES has been slammed aft stripping disconnected for a caller euphony video – but I americium loving his attitude.

He goes afloat bare successful a Saltburn-inspired promo for Get A Hold Of Yourself due to the fact that helium wanted to “feel escaped successful my fifties”.

He says: “The ‘not giving a f***’ happening is important successful life.

“That’s 1 of the reasons I wanted to person amusive with the video for this song.

“I bare it each successful the video and conscionable benignant of went, ‘F*** it, I’m having fun’.”

Good connected Chesney – helium truly is the 1 and only.

Beware losing connected Liam

OASIS fans are acceptable to get different accidental to spot Liam and Noel connected signifier erstwhile tickets for their North America circuit spell connected merchantability connected Friday.

But possibly they shouldn’t unreserved to bargain them.

On the archetypal nighttime of their maiden US circuit successful 1994, Noel temporarily discontinue aft a enactment with Liam, and successful 1996 Liam ditched the gigs to spell house-hunting.

He lone turned up towards the end, starring the brothers to divided up.

Unless they’ve developed a “show indispensable spell on” attitude, forking retired for those tickets whitethorn beryllium a precise risky business.

David's connected a chapeau trick

DAVID BECKHAM gets truthful obsessed by definite TV shows that helium starts acting the parts, helium has revealed.

Goldenballs says: “Victoria volition ever laughter astatine maine because, whenever there’s a TV amusement I’m watching, I benignant of morph into a character.”

Sounds similar surviving with Mr Benn from the Seventies children’s TV show, whose visits to a fancy formal store ended up with him having adventures that fitted his costume, earlier helium returned to his existent life.

David says determination has been a gangster signifier acknowledgment to Peaky Blinders and a cowboy 1 aft watching American TV bid Yellowstone, which seemingly Victoria “kind of liked”.

Oh, I stake she did.

Burger disconnected TGI

THE proprietor of the UK limb of TGI Fridays has gone into administration.

I americium not surprised.

I took my five-year-old determination for a “treat” aft helium eyed up 1 of their restaurants connected a caller buying trip.

I was truthful horrified by the prices, I vowed ne'er to return.

A jolly, badge-covered waitress could ne'er compensate for a run-of- the-mill burger that costs much than £20.