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Speaker 1: Fresh off the back of the new Labour Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: Sequia Stamer accepting free suits and glasses. But by the way,

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Speaker 1: is it just me or is it accepting free glasses

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Speaker 1: even weirder than accepting a free suit? Anyway, The deputy

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Speaker 1: leader of the British Labour Party accepted a free apartment

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Speaker 1: in New York, which I can sort of understand a

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Speaker 1: little bit more readily. I mean, you're in New York.

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Speaker 1: A donor says, Look, I've got a place in New

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Speaker 1: York where you stay there you needed a place to

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Speaker 1: stay anyway, That sort of makes sense. Whereas most people

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Speaker 1: who need reading glasses buy them for themselves. Anyway, Clothing's

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Speaker 1: tricky to the extent of spouse gets added to the mix,

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Speaker 1: so you're expected to look a certain way. It's expected

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Speaker 1: you can't turn up looking the same every time, so

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Speaker 1: you need more clothes than normal people. But where's the

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Speaker 1: line between an allowance and simply taking the mickey? MP's

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Speaker 1: aren't paid all that much of course, here or in

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Speaker 1: Britain or in Australia, which is where in Australia their

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Speaker 1: Prime Minster Anthony Elbanez. He now finds himself in his

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Speaker 1: own hole after revelations over the weekend, he organized a

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Speaker 1: bunch of free upgrades on quants by allegedly going directly

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Speaker 1: to the then CEO, Ellen Joyce. This was for per

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Speaker 1: Sisenal travel for himself and his family. I mean, obviously,

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Speaker 1: as Prime ministery flies at the front of the plane

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Speaker 1: if not on an Air Force jet. But your son

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Speaker 1: travels like anybody else, or they do unless Dad's been

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Speaker 1: on the phone to the CEO. Now, how these people

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Speaker 1: won think this is normal, I've got no idea, And

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Speaker 1: to how they think they'll get away with it is

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Speaker 1: beyond me. Public life these days is transparent. You can

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Speaker 1: do nothing without a snitch or a leak or a

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Speaker 1: WhatsApp going astray? Is it a labor thing? I was

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Speaker 1: thinking to myself over the weekends, this sort of a

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Speaker 1: left wing thing. I mean, how does Starmer and Elbow

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Speaker 1: explain freebes that you and I would never get? How

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Speaker 1: do they defend freebies from an already exalted position? I mean,

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Speaker 1: back here, Luxon, you've got a bagging for doing nothing wrong,

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Speaker 1: apart from being successful enough to own a few houses.

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Speaker 1: What would we have done if he'd been upgrading himself

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Speaker 1: or accepting free suits? And Amanda turns up in new

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Speaker 1: e wear paid for by party supporters. Public service once

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Speaker 1: meant serving the public, not using your position to upgrade yourself,

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Speaker 1: whether it's aviationally or sartorially. For more from The Mic

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