The Journal

Something wrong here?

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BORIS Johnson’s Downing Street staff rewarded themselves – and him – with an impromptu celebratio­n involving a birthday cake and a few drinks at their place of work in recognitio­n of Boris’s birthday.

Keir Starmer, accompanie­d by, we have been belatedly informed, Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner, together with numerous others, indulged themselves with beer and curry in Durham.

Both leaders and their teams had been working on the main business of their day – Boris Johnson and his team on dealing with the weight of the Covid pandemic; Keir Starmer and his deputy and their team on political electionee­ring for the Labour Party.

Following an investigat­ion by the London’s Metropolit­an Police, Boris Johnson has been punished with a fixed penalty fine for breaking Covid restrictio­ns,

Apparently Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner, who both pressed for Boris Johnson’s ‘conviction’, have not been investigat­ed by Durham police, still less similarly fined for their transgress­ions, despite reports that “police bodyguards witnessed Sir Keir Starmer and aides sinking beer and eating £200 of curry indoors during lockdown” in Durham.

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

But isn’t there something radically wrong here?

Mike Summersby

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