Did Rachel Reeves not get the ‘no freebies’ memo?
Did Rachel Reeves not get the ‘no freebies’ memo? Or is she about to change the Treasury’s title to ‘Department of Rubbing Your Nose In It’?
As she and Liz Kendall prepare to inflict devastating cuts on benefits paid to disabled people, it has been revealed that she accepted free tickets to sit in a corporate box to watch Sabrina Carpenter’s [pictured – I’m as sick of Reeves’s face as you should be] gig at the O2 arena last weekend.
The revelation has reignited the ‘Freebiegate’ scandal that Reeves’s boss Keir Starmer probably thought he’d killed after repaying £6,000 worth of gifts and donations and changing the rules on ministers accepting them and other gestures of hospitality.
The Ministerial Code now requires MPs to consider the “need to maintain the public’s confidence in the standards of propriety” when deciding whether to accept gifts.
So let me ask you:
Is it proper to accept concert tickets worth £475-900 each, prior to throwing the most vulnerable people in society deep into poverty?
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looking after them selves sod those thatpay that pay there wages tax payers . we got ID