New questions over Starmer event after memo leaked

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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, after a leaked Labour memo reportedly suggested time was set aside for him to eat dinner with colleagues.
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.
Describing the meal earlier this week, Sir Keir said that "at various points people went through to the kitchen, got a plate, had something to eat, and got on with their work".