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Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>The leader of the UK Labour Party, Keir Starmer \u2013 one of the most vocal critics of under-fire Boris Johnson amid the so-called \u201cpartygate\u201d row \u2013 earlier denied breaching COVID-19 rules in the wake of a photograph showing him drinking a beer with staff in a constituency office last year.<\/b><\/p>\n

UK Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of hypocrisy and urged by Tory MPs to apologise after being pictured drinking beer with colleagues during COVID-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n

Footage of Starmer, showing him with a bottle of beer in one hand and talking to a woman believed to be Labour MP Mary Foy in her constituency office in Durham, is dated 30 April 2021. At least five other people appear to be inside the room in the picture, taken several days before the Hartlepool by-election and published in the Daily Mail first in spring last year.<\/p>\n

At the time, the country was in step two of the road map out of the third lockdown, with indoor mixing between different households not allowed except for work.<\/p>\n

Keir Starmer has led a barrage of attacks castigating Prime Minister Boris Johnson over an outdoor Downing Street gathering in 2020 that is currently part of the \u201cpartygate\u201d probe.<\/p>\n

Tory MP Michael Fabricant added that if the PM could apologise for a \u201csecure\u201d Downing Street garden event, it was \u201ca bit graceless of Keir Starmer not to profusely apologise for an event in an office that was not guarded and could have been a real Covid spreader\u201d.<\/p>\n

The opposition leader was slammed for hypocrisy by Tory backbencher Andrew Bridgen, who said: \u201cPeople in glass houses shouldn’t throw too many stones. His hypocrisy is worse than the Prime Minister’s, because he is attacking the Prime Minister for doing what he’s done himself. People can judge for themselves whether or not he broke the rules.\u201d An ally of the embattled Boris Johnson was also cited as saying:<\/p>\n

\u2018No Breach of Rules, No Comparison\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

As he appeared on the BBC’s Sunday Morning show, Starmer himself denied breaching any lockdown rules during what he claimed was a work meeting in the run-up to last year’s local elections. When further pressed whether drinking of beer was \u201creasonably necessary for work purposes\u201d, the Labour leader said:<\/p>\n

As the host of the show queried why a photograph of Boris Johnson attending a \u201cwork event\u201d with wine and cheese in the Downing Street garden in May 2020 was different, the opposition leader quipped that people would \u201clook at the photos and make their own minds up\u201d.<\/p>\n

Starmer proceeded to double down on his insistence that the \u201cline is drawn in the rules and the Prime Minister broke the rules\u201d. A spokesman for the Labour leader insisted that Keir Starmer had nothing to apologise for, as he had broken no rules.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeir follows the rules at all times. He’s a former Chief Prosecutor \u2013 honesty and decency are non-negotiable for him,\u201d added the spokesperson.<\/p>\n

\u2018Heartfelt Apology\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

Boris Johnson had for the first time admitted he attended a drinks party at No 10 during the first lockdown, offering a “heartfelt apology” during PMQs on 12 January, but saying he had believed it to be a \u201cwork event\u201d at the time. Nevertheless, Labour leader Keir Starmer urged the PM to resign, denouncing him as a “pathetic spectacle of a man who has run out of road”.<\/p>\n

Witnesses cited by UK media have claimed that both the PM and his wife were among about 30 people at the event in May 2020 when social mixing between households was limited to two people, who could only meet outdoors and with social distancing of at least 2 metres.<\/p>\n

Boris Johnson insisted that people await the outcome of an inquiry by senior civil servant Sue Gray into alleged COVID-19 law-breaching in Downing Street before any statements on the matter are made.<\/p>\n

The PM “is understood to have shared what he knows” with Gray over the allegations, according to The Daily Telegraph, with the report on the investigation anticipated in a week\u2019s time.<\/p>\n

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