Leaked Memo Undermines Keir Starmer ‘Beergate’ Defence, Increasing Pressure to Resign
Keir Starmer is in very hot water after the Mail on Sunday obtained a secret Labour Party document which appears to blow apart his version of events over ‘Beergate’. The Mail on Sunday has the story.
An operational note drawn up ahead of Sir Keir’s notorious visit to Durham, where he was filmed enjoying a late-night beer with activists, reveals the gathering had been planned in advance.
The bombshell document, marked “private and confidential”, also calls into serious doubt Sir Keir’s claim that he returned to work after the beers and takeaway curries.
After the entry recording the “dinner in Miners Hall” – which includes a note to “arrange takeaway from Spice Lounge”, a local curry house – the document simply says: “End of visit”.
The dramatic revelation follows the announcement by Durham Constabulary on Friday that it was opening a fresh investigation into the event on April 30th last year, which took place when indoor socialising was illegal.
The inquiry comes after a series of revelations in the Daily Mail.
The memo – which was passed to this newspaper by a whistleblower – also further undermines Labour’s claims that it made “an honest mistake” when it denied that Deputy Leader Angela Rayner was at the event: it lists “AR” alongside “KS” as the two senior politicians anchoring the day’s proceedings.
The Labour leader – who is also under pressure from party members over his failure to make a significant U.K.-wide breakthrough in last week’s local elections – is facing accusations of hypocrisy, having called for Boris Johnson’s resignation in January when Scotland Yard launched its inquiry into claims of No. 10 lockdown-breaking.
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said last night: “Being investigated or receiving a fixed-penalty notice is not a resigning matter for anyone at all – unless of course you’ve daily argued the case that it is just that and repeatedly called for the resignation of others. He’s bang to rights and has no choice but to resign thanks to his own sanctimonious hypocrisy.”
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