Starmer should feel long arm of Covid law

IF the police do not apply the law fairly, reasonably and with consistency, they will quickly lose public trust and support. Soon, anarchy would reign.

So the Mail welcomes durham constabulary re-examining Sir Keir Starmer’s notorious ‘beer and pizza’ bash at a Labour constituency office while on the campaign trail last April.

to Labour’s leader, the no10 party for which Boris Johnson was fined by the Met Police – when an aide brought in a birthday cake which never left its tupperware box – dwarves the Great train Robbery.

Yet the truth is, everything he accuses Mr Johnson of, he did himself when indoor socialising was still banned.

the original police investigation into Sir Keir’s potential rule-breaking was hopeless and cursory. no one interviewed, a video studied, the allegations swiftly dismissed.

that might have been the correct decision. But if durham police were right, it follows the Met must be wrong – or vice versa.

What is scandalous and unacceptable is if Mr Johnson is being treated differently under the law to everyone else.