Angela Rayner has admitted to receiving thousands of pounds worth of free clothes from "donorgate" Labour peer Lord Alli.
In her register of interests, the Deputy Prime Minister declared she took some £3,550 in "work clothes" from the top party donor.
After previously claiming she had taken the cash for help with "Parliamentary duties", she then changed the record after taking advice from authorities, The Times reports.
The register now says "work clothes for use while undertaking my duties" rather than the previous "donation in kind for undertaking Parliamentary duties".
While it's the first time that Rayner - also the Housing Secretary - has brought her clothes donations to light, Lord Alli appears five times on her register of interests.
Back in September, it came to light that Lord Alli had greenlit Rayner's use of his multi-million-dollar apartment in New York - prompting outrage and calls for an official investigation by the Conservatives.
But the Deputy PM defended herself to the BBC, saying: "I think I followed the rules."
Addressing the backlash, she added: "I get that people are frustrated, in particular the circumstances that we're in, but donations for gifts and hospitality and monetary donations have been a feature of our politics for a very long time.
"People can look it up and see what people have had donations for, and the transparency is really important."
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In her register of interests, the Deputy Prime Minister declared she took some £3,550 in "work clothes" from the top party donor.
After previously claiming she had taken the cash for help with "Parliamentary duties", she then changed the record after taking advice from authorities, The Times reports.
The register now says "work clothes for use while undertaking my duties" rather than the previous "donation in kind for undertaking Parliamentary duties".
While it's the first time that Rayner - also the Housing Secretary - has brought her clothes donations to light, Lord Alli appears five times on her register of interests.
Back in September, it came to light that Lord Alli had greenlit Rayner's use of his multi-million-dollar apartment in New York - prompting outrage and calls for an official investigation by the Conservatives.
But the Deputy PM defended herself to the BBC, saying: "I think I followed the rules."
Addressing the backlash, she added: "I get that people are frustrated, in particular the circumstances that we're in, but donations for gifts and hospitality and monetary donations have been a feature of our politics for a very long time.
"People can look it up and see what people have had donations for, and the transparency is really important."
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