Beergate: Memo calls into question Starmer's claim that he did not break lockdown rules

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Labour leader said he was working and stopped to eat when he was filmed having a beer in a room in Durham last April. COVID rules banned household mixing indoors apart from working. But a leaked memo indicated the dinner had been listed on the schedule for a day in April 2021 during the local election and Hartlepool by-election campaign.

Published 11 months ago · London, United Kingdom

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