Small beer Police review over Starmer lockdown video

Police last night opened the possibility of an investigation into claims that Sir Keir Starmer broke lockdown rules after he was filmed drinking a beer with colleagues. Durham Constabulary confirmed it would consider a request from Richard Holden, a Conservative MP, to review a decision that cleared the

Labour leader. A 43-second video of Sir Keir emerged of him in the office of Mary Foy, the Labour MP for the City of Durham, on April 30 last year, when indoor socialising was banned. It shows him laughing with colleagues and taking a sip from a beer bottle after campaigning for the Hartlepool by-election. Durham Labour officials held a “quiz and social” Holden’s concerns event on that relating to Sir evening, the Daily Keir’s case.

Mail reported. A spokesman for In another letter the force refused to Durham to rule out a fresh Constabulary, Mr investigation, the Holden asked it to Mail reported. investigate the Labour said quiz – claiming it that it was a was clearly a misinterpretation “social [and] of the chief pre-arranged constable’s letter gathering”. to suggest Sir Keir Ciaron Irvine, would be Durham’s deputy investigated. A chief constable, spokesman said: promised to “Some of the speak to the characterisation investigations of the letter has team about Mr been inaccurate.”