I was with you up to the unsubstantiated point above, then you made the whole post a nonsense.I'm Armed Forces. I understand explicitly why the Public Sector are not permitted to accept gifts.
In the end you just have to ask yourself one single and simple question - why is it that Starmer is taking a huge string of criticism, when this "gift" subject has not been raised once in the previous 10 years, (despite his gifts being dwarfed in value by most of the cabinet members of the previous government)?