'He Is Mr Rules': Labour Denies Leak Shows Starmer Broke Lockdown Laws
The Guardian|May 09, 2022
Labour has rejected claims that a leaked planning memo about Keir Starmer's visit to Durham last year undermined his assertion that he did not break lockdown laws, and has insisted he is "Mr Rules”.
- Andrew Sparrow and Rajeev Syal
'He Is Mr Rules': Labour Denies Leak Shows Starmer Broke Lockdown Laws

The Labour document, published by the Mail on Sunday, shows that an 80-minute dinner with the Labour MP Mary Foy, with a takeaway curry, was planned as part of his schedule.

Starmer has claimed that the meal, at which he was pictured drinking beer, did not break Covid lockdown rules since he was eating in the course of work, not attending a social event.

The announcement by Durham police on Friday that they were reopening their investigation into the event has led Tories to accuse the Labour leader of hypocrisy since he had called for Boris Johnson's resignation when police opened an investigation into lockdown breaches at Downing Street.

Tories said the memo was evidence of the meal being in breach of lockdown rules because it showed that it had been arranged (to take place between 8.40pm and 10pm), and that it had not been a spontaneous decision to order food as work ran into the evening, as Starmer's account of the evening implied.

Starmer also claimed that after his meal he continued working. But the leaked memo showed that after the meal he was due to return to his hotel.

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