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Speaker 1: Over in the UK, Labour's leader was using donations private

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Speaker 1: donations to pay for his wife's wardrobe. All of this

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Speaker 1: has come out overnight, personal shoppers, clothes alterations. This for

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Speaker 1: campaign events and after the campaign as Weldcare Starmer's wife

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Speaker 1: Victoria was dressed to the nines. Apparently wasn't declared as

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Speaker 1: a donation, wasn't declared, has now been declared as a donation.

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Speaker 1: This is from labor donor Wahid Ali and David Lamy.

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Speaker 1: The Foreign Secretary has been willed out to explain it.

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Speaker 2: In our country, there isn't a budget for the Prime

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Speaker 2: minister's clothes or his wife's clothes. In some countries there's

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Speaker 2: a substantial budget. I've just come back from America, where

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Speaker 2: there is a substantial budget to ensure that the US

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Speaker 2: President and the first Lady their appearance can never be challenged.

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Speaker 1: I think we should publicly fund our leader's wardrobes. I'm

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Speaker 1: just going to put it out there. I think we should.

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Speaker 1: It's important how we look on the world stage. If

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Speaker 1: you're going to in the world of geopolitics and diplomacy,

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Speaker 1: you need to look good, you need to look sharp,

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Speaker 1: and you need to look smart. You know, we don't

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Speaker 1: want to be looking like some crack pot banana Republic

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Speaker 1: in a moomoo, do we when we go into these events.

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Speaker 1: I think we should be publicly funded. And the rules

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Speaker 1: at the moment don't X aren't really clear on whether

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Speaker 1: you are allowed to use your allowance for clothing or not.

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Speaker 1: This is the politicians allowances, So I'll tell you what

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Speaker 1: the rules say in just a couple of minutes. But

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Speaker 1: I think, just as a they're representing us, we need

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Speaker 1: to look good. I'm not against publicly funding their wardrobes.

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