Keir Starmer to be Investigated by Police Over ‘Beergate’
Keir Starmer faces a police investigation into his lockdown curry, after repeatedly demanding Boris Johnson should quit for breaching rules in similar circumstances. MailOnline has more.
The Labour leader is at risk of being engulfed by the so-called ‘Beergate’ row after Durham Police dramatically declared it will probe “significant new information” about the gathering.
The force initially decided Sir Keir did not breach Covid rules when he and party aides had drinks and a takeaway in April 2021, when millions of Britons were banned from mixing indoors in most circumstances. But following intense pressure and a series of revelations – including that up to 30 people attended and shared £200 worth of food – the position has shifted.
Sir Keir maintained a stony silence as journalists threw questions about the situation on a visit to Carlisle this afternoon. Labour said the party was “happy to answer any questions there are and we remain clear that no rules were broken”.
However, there is frustration among Tories that the decision was only taken after the local elections – when the PM’s own fine over the Partygate scandal damaged his support.
The development could raise serious doubts over Sir Keir’s future, as he trenchantly argued that Mr Johnson should resign when he was found to have broken the law.
Sir Keir had been filmed drinking a bottle of lager with colleagues at the event at the offices of Durham MP Mary Foy in the run-up to last year’s local elections – and has been wriggling when asked about the incident all week.
Sadiq Khan risked inflaming the row earlier this week by admitting there was “equivalence” between Keir Starmer’s actions and the PM’s birthday gathering in the Cabinet Room in June 2020 – which has seen him and Chancellor Rishi Sunak fined. Mr. Khan suggested the main difference was that the Labour leader only broke lockdown once.
Tory MP Richard Holden, backed by several ministers, wrote to Durham Constabulary insisting there was now “incontrovertible” evidence Labour had “lied” about the events of a year ago, including there now disproved claim that the deputy leader Angela Rayner was not there.
A spokesman for Durham Constabulary said:
Earlier this year, Durham Constabulary carried out an assessment as to whether COVID-19 regulations had been breached at a gathering in Durham City on April 30th 2021. At that time, it was concluded that no offence had been established and therefore no further action would be taken. Following the receipt of significant new information over recent days, Durham Constabulary has reviewed that position and now, following the conclusion of the pre-election period, we can confirm that an investigation into potential breaches of COVID-19 regulations relating to this gathering is now being conducted.
As with Partygate, for sceptics the criticism is not that Starmer and others were having a gathering, which sceptics think should never have been illegal. It’s that they were attending one while supporting the very restrictions that made most such gatherings against the law. Boris’s offence was made worse by being the writer of the rules. For Starmer, it is his repeated calls for restrictions to be tougher and longer that aggravates his (alleged) offence. In all cases, it exposes that these political leaders did not fear the virus that they were telling the country to cower in their homes and make huge sacrifices to avoid catching or passing on. The same politicians who stoked the fear and clamour for restrictions are now being eaten by the monster of public indignation and grief that they created. Will they learn? Somehow I doubt it.
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Well there is a God after all. I hope that useless, whining windbag pointless excuse for a politician broke this and all the other rules and is done for it. Can’t bear him.
I hope the guy that looks like a young Noel Edmonds in the background, is Noel Edmonds and he’s chopping lines of coke.
Is that Matt Hancock in the blue pullover?
might just be wishful thinking Cecil
It’s probably a sausage roll, but we can hope.
I think the person to whom you refer is eating what looks like a sausage roll or similar
Sorry to disappoint.
But is Steer Calmer enjoying what looks to be 2 bottles of beer (2 infinitely worse than just one!!)?
It’s a rent boy. There’s more mud on Keir yet!
Whoever it is, he is just Standing With Ukraine as represented by Zelensky.
Keir “Limp Warm Wet Lettuce” Starmer.
Sir Beer Starmer.
It’s the ”sir” that’s the risible bit.
I would rather he led the opposition than a proper, competent politician. Same with Corbyn, he was never going to be elected either. Considering the dumpling we have as leader of the Tories the standards bar is as low as it’s ever been so a decent labour leader could do serious damage.
Hardly matters though, given all the appalling destruction carried out by Bozo and co!
Did you mistype, or are you saying it’s good that Starmer is rubbish? Corbyn was nearly elected in 2017. Electorally he was the most competent Labour leader for 12 years. The only reason he got walloped in 2019 was because of the Zionist decision to whack Labour because of three items in the Labour manifesto. These items were 1 – recognising Palestine, 2 – stopping the sale of weapons used by Israel to violate human rights, 3 – removing de facto immunity from Israeli war criminals. It’s all there in black and white but the MSM didn’t mention it. Dunno whether you saw all of that coming in 2017. Personally I said in 2017 that a man who supported the Palestinians would not be allowed to become prime minister, but I was pleasantly surprised when during the campaign period Labour started doing better and better. Rule of conflict: after you unexpectedly nearly beat a stronger opponent because they underestimated you, they will kick your a*se to kingdom come in any subsequent battle of a similar kind. I don’t think Starmer is rubbish, but then I think the job of the “leader of the opposition” is precisely as a safety-valve. What… Read more »
Electorally he was the most competent Labour leader for 12 years. Much like saying Biden was the most competent Democrat leader in 12 years. It doesn’t mean to say he’s not an incompetent moron. Predictably you’re obsessed with Jews and as a typical left winger, blame the failure of your leadership on them. Unbelievable that you can’t see the contradictions in your outlook. Corbyn won nothing other than strongarming his way to the labour leadership because he was a communist, along with his ever present, reliable wing man, John McDonnell. There was an interesting article in the Jewish Chronicle shortly before the election which announced up to 40% (from memory) of London Jews would emigrate to Trump’s America rather than stay in London under a Corbyn government. As another commentator pointed out, when Jews begin to run, the rest of us best follow them. Quite why anyone would support, or even tolerate, a regime that has publicly devoted itself to annihilating the Israeli Jews I will never understand. The Zionist’s (Israeli Jews) have surrendered to the Palestinians a huge portion of the lands awarded them following the Balfour declaration. What was once virtually uninhabitable lands the Jews made prosperous. Now… Read more »
You really need to get over your obsession with the Jews, and by obsession I don’t mean to imply that you have a great love for them, quite the opposite.
He’d probably resign on the day of the Queen’s Jubilee – a day to get bad news out and all that.
It’s almost impossible that the Labour Party, even under Corbyn, would have done worse than Johnson’s criminally corrupt Cabinet of shysters. £400bn spent on Covid?? It wouldn’t have been worse.
I have no time for the Labour Party, especially some of its venal London ‘supporters’, but the Conservatives right now are so bad that it’s like having to choose between getting syphilis and TB. Both are curable if treated quickly enough, both are fatal if left unattended.
He’s gonna be bankrupted by another £50 PCN, I am sure.
If my memory serves me correct didn’t he spend £400,000 on a kitchen? If he did all reference to it has been removed from google
Owns 7acres in Surrey worth $10m
Was the curry and beer paid for from Labour Party funds?
Director of Public Prosecutions must be quite a lucrative job… And I don’t just mean the salary.
Barbara Mills might be able to confirm.
PS WTF does a person put in a kitchen that costs £400K?
Custom-built beautiful wooden worktops, some of them topped with granite? Top of the range induction hob with top of the range fan extractor; two ovens; a full set of top quality saucepans, stock pots, skillets, roasting tins etc each priced at £100-300; a full set of baking tins and shape cutters; top quality knives costing £1k a set; top of the range fridge-freezer; top of the range wine storage cupboard; washing machine, dishwasher and glass washer; custom designed island; top quality dinner service; high quality crockery for every day use; high quality cut glass for alcohol along with all cut glass storage vessels for alcohol; pasta makers, sous vide set up, walk-in -20C cold room; larder with heat controls to keep temperature at 8-12C in summer; top of the range lighting system; terracotta tiled floor on top of under-floor heating; bread maker, food mixers, liquidisers etc. Plus every conceivable nick-nack from bottle openers to garlic crushers, mandolins, peelers, corers, scissors, string, wooden spoons, chopping boards etc etc etc.
“Mr. Khan suggested the main difference was that the Labour leader only broke lockdown once.” that we know of.
Who cares, he doesn’t even have a regional managers job
I hope at the next Trilateral Commission meeting he has to sit on the naughty step.
Surely he will be acclaimed as a committed hypocrite and lawbreaker whose friends will give him a pay rise if he is actually forced to resign?
Are we talking about the Keir who has caught covid 5 times, if so there might be 5 parties to investigate? Plod will be busy…
But all those jabs he must have had must be next to useless then.
Still, what can you expect from saline.
Actually, the fact that he has claimed to have had repeated SARS-CoV-2 “infections” is an indicator that he has had the real experimental “vaccinations”.
I don’t give a flying f*ck about ‘beergate’. What I care about is murder-of-the-masses-including-children…gate.
No you dont, the author and DS have already set your boundaries of thought as far as this goes. Look: As with Partygate, for sceptics the criticism is not that Starmer and others were having a gathering, which sceptics think should never have been illegal. It’s that they were attending one while supporting the very restrictions that made most such gatherings against the law. See, were not upset about industrial scale ritual abuse of children in the schools and the fact that we know 100percent that convid in its entirety from start to finish top to bottom left to right has been rolled out on the back of nothing but lies and transparently fraudulent science, we dont care about all the terrorism and brainwashing, we dont care about the adverse events or the deaths from the jabs or the blatant cover up of jabbed sports stars collapsing on the sports pitches all over the world or the harm coming down the tracks resulting from the genetically reset immune systems folk have been tricked into enrolling for in the clinical trial for the genetic bioweapon clot shots that no one in their right mind would ever sign up to if they… Read more »
Khan positioning himself as successor, virtuously untainted by the horrors of warm lager and birthday cake.
Khan as leader of the Labour Party? What a thought….and I judge him not by the colour of his skin, but the results of his Mayorship….
Not at all surprised he’s under investigation. Him and his poxy party fully supported – and in some instances wanted more of – the tyrannical curtailment of the rights and freedoms of the public, imposed by the rogue government. IMO, Starmer acted as Johnson’s right hand man in this fraudulent misrepresentation of the effects of a ‘virus’. He and others who colluded in whatever way deserve everything that’s thrown at him / them.
Nope: they deserve much, much more!
To call it “Beergate” flatters Sir Keir. He’s a shandy man if ever I’ve seen one.
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to find Keir Starmer leaning over you.
Angela Rayner only said his name a mere THREE times. Now she has to use warding-off magic to avert his influence every time she sits on the front bench.
Perhaps she’ll be crossing her fingers.
I’ve only just got over a similar comment made on this site a few months back about waking up and finding Chris whitty leaning over you. This is psychological torture!
Imagine Emerald Fox leaning over you – you’d be finished.
Ah, but that would give you the perfect justification to punch the lights out of the unwitty one. Molesting a sleeping member of the public by getting too close and all that….
If only he’d ignored the lockdown sooner and harder.
He has an ideal opportunity to use mockery and derision against the government right now, but of course he won’t use it.
He should have been shagging Jess Phillips with surveillance cameras watching. At least that would have given the nation a good laugh and double servings of ‘schadenfreude for hypocrites’ for puding…..
So many politicians and civil servants broke the law. It’s like they knew social distancing and masks didn’t work or something…
Opps – I think you meant to write:
“it’s like they knew there was nothing very much to be afraid of”
and that the virus was not as bad as they kept telling us
“The force initially decided Sir Keir did not breach Covid rules when he and party aides had drinks and a takeaway in April 2021, when millions of Britons were banned from mixing indoors in most circumstances.”
How did Durham Police Force come to that conclusion?
Unless they are corrupt.
Happy to fine everyone else sat on a park bench.
The benches in Durham were in fact, taped up so no one could sit down. My 96 year old uncle who used to walk to a bench, sit then walk home, found it taped up, so it ended his daily exercise.
How f’ing ridiculous that was
“Will they learn? Somehow I doubt it.”
They have learnt – that the Police are in their pocket, and they can get away with almost anything. Also that the British public are too docile to do anything about it.
The media are also in their pocket
Will they learn? Will they ever drain the swamp, it seems to be getting bigger
These politicians didn’t seem personally worried about the deadly virus they were telling us in public necessitated us being shut at home for weeks on end, wearing masks, taking untested vaccines, avoiding contact with our loved ones, working from home and keeping our kids out of school.
It’s almost as if the whole “deadly virus” thing was a
COMPLETE PACK OF LIES.
He should be investigated for being a boring, pointless cunt more than anything else.
You can’t do damage as a BPC. What you should investigate is his servile slavery to the US/Zionist axis. UK interests are not served by being dual-citizens’ bum boys.
its such a serious virus and the only cure is a pint of best, as I have said many times, if it was such a dangerous virus, why did the politicians not feel sufficiently fearful as to not abide by their own restrictions? Only conclusion is they fall well knew from the start that the so called virus was not that bad. If it was a deadly virus, they would probably be all in bunkers.
I seem to remember Sir Kneel spent nearly all of 2020 and 2021 demanding harder, longer and earlier lockdowns otherwise the big bad Covid monster was certain to strike us all dead – if he had been prime minister during this period we would all probably be in full Chinese style lockdown right now. He should resign as should the fat Turk but not for having a drink with colleagues after a hard day, no they need to go for imposing and demanding such authoritarian measures in Britain that prevented people from leaving their homes, seeing relatives and friends and running businesses etc. The response was totally disproportionate and they need to be made an example of both as a punishment and also as a deterrent to anyone else tempted to impose authoritarianism on our country.
when he kneeled it looked the most pathetic thing and he looked so weak
I wanted to kick him in the head and then stomp on his neck. It made my blood curl. Miraculously, about 10 seconds later, I had calmed down….so Mr Starmer is safe for now. Until he does something else that is totally sick making.
So, just as bad as Boris in breaking the rules. What about the other parties?
The traditional political class as a whole is simply not to be trusted so not fit to govern.
It’s all been a fraud and it’s perfectly clear now that regardless of which party they all knew it was a fraud. So why have all of them been supporting this and pumping out such lies? This all harms their own families and friends and contacts even if they have a a nice stash somewhere. Did they really think that people would never join up the dots? Why are they all happy to sit back and promote measures which harm ordinary people including killing many?
As a politician, always refrain from hurling stones unless you are utterly faultless.
Of course despite that meaning no stones could EVER be thrown, rocks will continue across the House.
The indignation should be towards the UTTER EVIL useless SAGE Chunts who advised the completely useless, ineffective bullshit lockdowns in the first place!! Yet another example of the moronic sheeple being thrown off the main track!!
Why isn’t every single one of those attending these illegal gatherings named and shamed? They were individually guilty of breaking the law that they help to devise. Will they all be fined? This is not just about Johnson and Starmer – their own minions are culpable too.
This is just a distraction. The real issue here is not the hypocrisy – we have grown to expect that from politicians – but the fact that all these “insiders”, with access to far more information than us plebs, demonstrate that they have no concern about things they are using policy to instill FEAR!! in the general population about.
These people have no spine and if they REALLY believed there was anaything to worry about, they would be the first to hide away behind their curtains wearing triple masks,
It’s not the hypocrisy, it’s the confirmation that it was all a scam and a complete exercise in BS for political purposes.
Queue Johnson & Sturmer in unison: We Stand With Ukraine against the Evil Rooskies.
Can we be sure it was beer he was drinking and not engine oil? I swear the lifeless goon is a cheap knock out android produced in China. One day he is going to do a big reveal to promote the trans-human movement.