{"id":127361,"date":"2022-05-18T21:29:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T21:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=127361"},"modified":"2022-05-18T21:29:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T21:29:48","slug":"starmer-own-goal-critics-say-image-of-labour-leader-is-at-odds-with-beergate-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/starmer-own-goal-critics-say-image-of-labour-leader-is-at-odds-with-beergate-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer own goal? Critics say image of Labour leader is at odds with Beergate claim"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Critics say a photograph showing the Labour leader holding up a football shirt is at odds with his claim he was working that night and not socialising.<\/span><\/p>\n Sir Keir was seen at the Miners Hall in Durham on April 30, last year, while campaigning for a crucial by-election.<\/p>\n Images emerged of him swigging a bottle of beer and tucking into a takeaway curry with several colleagues.<\/p>\n The former Director of Public Prosecutions insists it was a meal break during a work event and therefore no rules were broken.<\/p>\n However, the picture of him holding up the non-league Consett AFC suggests he was not working for the entire evening.<\/p>\n A Labour spokesman declined to comment on the football shirt photo.<\/p>\n Beergate is being investigated by Durham Police.<\/p>\n Sir Keir and Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner have both vowed to quit if they receive fixed penalty notices for breaching Covid restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n The Opposition leader has insisted: “I am absolutely clear that no laws were broken. They were followed at all times. <\/span><\/p>\n “I simply had something to eat whilst working late in the evening, as any politician would do days before an election.”<\/span><\/p>\n