Sir Keir Starmer joined movie star Labour backers for a celebration within the Downing Road backyard simply hours after laying flowers for the kids murdered within the Southport knife assault, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
The Prime Minister mingled with Labour supporters at a barbecue at No 10 on the night of July 30 after he laid a floral tribute earlier that day in Southport, the place three kids had been fatally stabbed throughout a dance class.
Movie star friends on the do included TV presenter June Sarpong, cleaning soap actress Michelle Collins, and Helen Thorn and Ellie Gibson, who current the Scummy Mummies podcast.
The MoS can reveal the occasion was additionally attended by Labour donor Lord Waheed Alli, who has given greater than £900,000 to the get together and its candidates since 2004.
This newspaper understands that Sir Keir arrived on the get together in Downing Road’s rose backyard at round 8pm. Round half an hour later, Southport erupted into violence, with lots of attacking a mosque. It has beforehand been reported that Lord Alli, whose wealth is estimated at £200 million, organised a post-election reception within the Downing Road backyard with others who had helped to bankroll the marketing campaign.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer (proper) arrives with a floral tribute to the kid victims of a knife assault in Southport on July 30, 2024
Ellie Gibson (left) and Helen Thorn (proper), who current the Scummy Mummies podcast, had been current on the Downing Road do
Ms Sarpong, a former girlfriend of International Secretary David Lammy, posed for an image outdoors No 10 with Larry the Downing Road cat
EastEnders actress Michelle Collins additionally posted an image posing outdoors Quantity 10
The Prime Minister’s message reads: ‘To the victims, households and folks of Southport, our hearts are damaged. There are not any phrases for such profound loss. The nation’s ideas are with you’. The message is signed by Keir Starmer
Labour sources denied Lord Alli organised, hosted or paid for the July 30 barbecue – however conceded he was amongst get together supporters who attended.
Sir Keir final evening confronted accusations of hypocrisy after final month claiming that beneath the Tories the rose backyard, the place Boris Johnson was pictured consuming cheese and consuming wine with workers throughout the first Covid lockdown, ‘turned a logo of the rot on the coronary heart of their authorities’.
Senior Tory MP Sir Alec Shelbrooke stated: ‘Sir Keir is now uncovered as a hypocrite of the worst type.
‘The one rot right here is how Sir Keir’s behaviour in authorities dismally fail to match as much as his pious, holier-than-thou phrases.’
He added: ‘Given the dreadful occasions that occurred solely the day earlier than, it was crassly insensitive for Sir Keir and Labour to have gone forward with this get together.
‘On the very least, the PM ought to have postponed it.’
Reform MP Richard Tice stated the get together confirmed ‘an unimaginable lack of empathy, sympathy and consciousness of the state of the nation.’
Sources declare the barbecue, which was scheduled to happen between 5.30pm and seven.30pm, was held to thank volunteers and activists for his or her exhausting work and help throughout the election marketing campaign.
Greater than 100 friends had been served sausages and rose wine and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner gave a speech earlier than Sir Keir arrived.
Ms Sarpong, a former girlfriend of International Secretary David Lammy, posed for an image outdoors No 10 with Larry the Downing Road cat.
‘After 14 LOOOONG years, beautiful to be again at No10 with a Labour PM in residence!’ she later wrote on Instagram.
The Prime Minister lays his personal floral tribute in Southport
Sir Keir observes the floral tributes for 3 younger ladies who died in a knife assault throughout a Taylor Swift dance class
Sir Keir walks by means of the rose backyard at Downing Road. After Boris Johnson was pictured consuming wine and cheese within the backyard throughout the Covid lockdown, Sir Keir referred to as it ‘a logo of the rot on the coronary heart of their authorities’
Senior Tory MP Sir Alec Shelbrooke (pictured proper) stated: ‘Sir Keir is now uncovered as a hypocrite of the worst type’
Reform MP Richard Tice (pictured) stated the get together confirmed ‘an unimaginable lack of empathy, sympathy and consciousness of the state of the nation’
House Secretary Yvette Cooper walks with flowers close to the scene the place three kids had been killed in Southport
Ms Cooper (pictured laying a floral tribute) gave a sombre assertion to the Home of Commons wherein she up to date MPs on the ‘devastating assault’ in Southport and named the three victims who died
At simply earlier than 6.30pm, whereas the barbecue was nonetheless going down, House Secretary Yvette Cooper gave a sombre assertion to the Home of Commons wherein she up to date MPs on the ‘devastating assault’ in Southport and named the three victims who died.
Earlier within the day, Sir Keir was heckled as he paid his condolences within the seaside city, with one man declaring: ‘This is your photograph alternative.’
A Labour supply stated: ‘The Tories drunkenly partied and puked on the partitions whereas the nation obeyed the foundations.
‘The rose backyard has now been returned to service and was used to say thanks to folks from across the nation who gave their all for a Labour victory.’
