Scandal of peer who swindled taxpayers of £125k was loaned £62k by Lord Alli and protected by Starmer - Kelvin MacKenzie

Well, after a decade or so of quiet about the scandal, the plot has just thickened. Thanks to The Times I learn that our old chum Lord Alli loaned Uddin £62,000 after Lords officials ordered her to return the whole £125,000 she had nicked from the taxpayer.

It was quite clear from four years of ownership of the flat – she claimed £30,000 every year for the overnight allowance- that she had hardly, if ever, set foot in the place.

The neighbours said they had never seen her and a plumber was quoted in the Sunday Times saying the joint was empty.

The reality is that she had lived in East London for 30 years and her children went to a school in the district. A total racket.

The names of Alli and Starmer being linked are clearly uncomfortable, but the PM's people told The Times that he had never met Alli until 2015 when he came into politics.

The reason that Alli gave the loan of £62,000 was that Alli was concerned that three peers being investigated for taxpayer fiddling were all Asian and thought there might be a race aspect to the probe.

Why couldn’t he have accepted that it was more likely a criminal aspect to the investigation?

I have been writing extensively about Baroness Uddin, who still sits in the Lords but these days as a crossbencher and not as a Blair ‘’working peer’’, but when I went online to find more details about her found it had been extensively cleaned up.

There is a line at the end of each screen which says;’ Some results have been removed under data protection law in Europe.

’’Would have been much more appropriate had it read;’’ Uddin was a crook who fiddled the taxpayer out of thousands but got away with it.’’