Diane Abbott has become the first Labour MP to publicly say Sir Keir Starmer should 'consider his position' if he is fined by police over 'beergate'
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Sir Keir Starmer has said he is confident he did not breach any rules when he had a beer and a takeaway with colleagues while COVID restrictions were in place. The Labour leader said he was working and stopped to eat when he was filmed having a beer in a room in Durham last April, when COVID rules banned household mixing indoors apart from working.
"As I've explained a number of times, I was working in the office, we stopped for something to eat, there was no party, no breach of the rules," he said.Sir Keir Starmer filmed drinking a beerwas announced by Durham Constabulary on Friday.Earlier on Saturday, Diane Abbott became the first Labour MP to publicly say Sir Keir may have to step down if he is fined over the incident.
The shadow home secretary under Jeremy Corbyn told LBC:"If he actually gets a fixed penalty notice he really has to consider his position.
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