Angela Rayner has said she will not appeal if she is found to have broken coronavirus rules by Durham Police over a so-called ‘beergate’ gathering last year. The MP for Ashton-under-Lyne is alleged to have had a beer and a takeaway with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and MP Mary Foy at Durham Miners Hall in April last year when indoor social gatherings were still banned.
Speaking to BBC’s Today programme on Friday (July 8), Rayner said she would accept the findings of the investigation and would not appeal against the police’s conclusions.
“Well, yeah, we’ll accept the findings,” she said. “You know, it’s very clear that both myself and Keir believe that we believe in the rule of law. We believe that if you’re a lawmaker, you can’t be a lawbreaker, and that we couldn’t lead the party under those conditions.
“We’ve got a Prime Minister who spent the last couple of months trying to cling on to power that has devastated the British public and we’ve not been dealing with the issues that matter to them.”
Earlier this month, Ms Rayner said she was ‘very confident’ she had not broken any rules over the social gathering. She and Sir Keir have both said they will quit if they are issued with fixed penalty notices for the event.
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