New questions over Starmer event after memo leaked

Key Facts

• Image source, Getty Images Sir Keir Starmer is facing further questions over whether he broke Covid lockdown rules at an MP's office in Durham, amid reports a leaked Labour memo suggested time was set aside for him to eat dinner with colleagues.
• The Mail on Sunday published what it said was a memo showing timings for "dinner", before the visit would end.
• Sir Keir was filmed drinking a bottle of beer in the constituency office of Durham MP Mary Foy last year, in the run-up to a by-election in nearby Hartlepool.
• The Labour leader has maintained the visit was a work event, and that the food and drink was consumed in between doing work, so was within the rules.

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