Ministers have sought to end the perception they are leading “very different lives” to the public ahead of Labour’s party conference amid efforts to draw a line under a row about clothing donations to high-profile Government figures. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said it was important to demonstrate the Government’s priorities are the country’s priorities after it emerged on the eve of Labour’s annual gathering that clothing donations would no longer be accepted by the Prime Minister. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00MPs have always accepted gifts and donations of every political party and as long as they
00:07are declared properly and on time that is completely within the rules. We don't want
00:13people to think for a moment that we're more interested in gifts or donations than we are
00:19in the country and I think that's why we've taken a fairly sensible decision that there
00:25won't be any donations or gifts accepted of the kind that we've seen in the last few months.
00:33We're perfectly prepared to accept scrutiny and criticism and challenge and where we think we've
00:38got it wrong we're a government that will be responsive and open to changing our minds.
00:43I've never received donations for clothing I think your viewers can probably
00:47see for themselves that I choose my own clothes to the sadness of my staff.