Labour Leader Starmer Woos Business Chiefs and City Donors
- Head of UK’s opposition party was guest of Chelsea FC co-owner
- Parties thrown in some of London’s most coveted neighborhoods
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Labour leader Keir Starmer was a guest of property tycoon Jonathan Goldstein at Sunday’s Premier League match between Chelsea and Arsenal, in the latest sign of the opposition party’s warming relations with big business.
Arsenal-supporting Starmer will have been happy with the result: his team beat Chelsea FC, co-owned by Goldstein, by a single goal. But for the Labour leader, the greater victory is his ability to lure back former long-term supporters like the head of Cain International who’d been put off during the tenure of his left-wing predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn.