Similarly, the Daily Mirror says police are coming “under pressure” to investigate the accusation the Conservative Party was giving places in the House of Lords to multimillionaire donors. The paper quotes Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who has accused the prime minister of being “up to his neck” in sleaze. The government has defended the peerages, saying they were philanthropists who were successful in business and ought to be considered for the Lords, the paper adds.