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'I am a gay person. As chair of Labour’s election fundraising, he used his £18 million London penthouse to host weekly meetings to plot donation drives. It was Emily Thornberry – then living on the same street – who encouraged her East End neighbour to take a greater role in the 1990s. His long-term girlfriend, Angela O’Brien, with whom he had lived for the best part of a decade, had moved out of the flat they owned together in Islington.
Yet Starmer seems to have coped.
In the 1990s Doughty Street Chambers was the progressive set in London. Further millions came from property, online retail and media rights: not bad for a boy whose careers officer suggested he become a bus conductor.
Such wealth is lavished on Alli’s friends and contacts.
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It came as official figure revealed on Thursday that immigration has tumbled in the past year - but is still at a high level.
Official figures showed net long-term inflows were 431,000 in the year to December, compared with 860,000 across 2023. ‘It resets things without using the word “reset”,’ said one MP afterwards.
Downing Street will now try to draw a line under the donations scandal and tensions within No.
10. His donations make up just part of his contribution. He granted Angela Rayner the use of his luxury Manhattan apartment on New Year’s Eve. He has funded David Lammy’s staff, gifted Steve Reed a pair of £420 leather-lined wellies and bankrolled Bridget Phillipson’s 40th birthday party.
More than 500 lobbyists and executives shelled out £3,000 a ticket to mingle with ministers and swell party coffers: Alli helped co-ordinate donors.
Keeping business onside was one of the major sub-plots to the conference. ‘He’s had his seat in the Lords since 1998,’ says one.
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Reeves’s conference speech was light on details and a green paper on industrial strategy is not expected until next year. ‘We need more like him in Labour – not less,’ said one. His bulging contacts book enables him to play a lead role in tapping up others. He’d always return their calls.”
Starmer and Phillippa Kaufmann quickly bought a four-bedroom house in Stoke Newington, north London, in September 1997.
To do this we will link your MailOnline account with your Facebook account. Instead, the revised position retained the requirement for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria to change legal gender.
Since Labour’s landslide win in July 2024, Starmer’s government has upheld and extended the previous Conservative ban on puberty blockers for trans youth, citing the Cass Review.
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Others accused Starmer of “empty gestures” and “performative allyship”, with one user adding:
“If he actually wanted to support the LGBT+ community, he would oppose the Supreme Court ruling and EHRC guidance. In the 1990s it was Tony Blair ringing Alli for advice on ‘yoof appeal’ and Peter Mandelson using his Kent mansion to plot campaigns.
We can move on from there and that’s very helpful.”
When asked by ITV West Country whether he still considered trans women to be women, Starmer replied:
“I think the Supreme Court has answered that question. We’ll ask you to confirm this for your first post to Facebook.
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‘It is a noble pursuit, just like giving to charity – and we don’t recognise that enough,’ declared Wes Streeting, for whom Alli once threw a £4,600 fundraising dinner attended by actors Sir Ian McKellen and Michael Cashman.
It is difficult to overstate Alli’s importance to Labour.