Overview
- Cabinet Office transparency records confirm Keir Starmer purchased a personalised silver necklace given by Donald and Melania Trump during their September visit.
- Downing Street has not disclosed the necklace’s valuation or the amount the prime minister paid.
- Other Trump gifts—a personalised golf club and silver cufflinks for Starmer and cowboy boots for his wife—were not bought and are held by the department.
- Under the ministerial code, gifts valued above £140 must be declared and either surrendered to the department or kept by paying the amount above the threshold.
- The disclosures also list 2025 gifts from leaders including Anthony Albanese and Mahmood Abbas, with most not purchased and held by the government; Starmer earlier bought a hamper from Giorgia Meloni but declined Arsène Wenger’s Arsenal memorabilia.