Starmer vows to resign if fined over potential Covid breach
Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to resign if police conclude that he broke Covid rules during a work event in Durham dubbed “beergate”.
The Labour leader said he was “absolutely clear” that he had not broken any rules but said it was a “matter of principle and honour”, having called for the resignation of the prime minister and chancellor after they were fined for a Covid breach.
Meanwhile, Nicola Sturgeon has said that Tory attacks on the Labour leader were part of a “massive operation” to divert attention away from Boris Johnson’s “serial breaching” of lockdown rules.
Ms Sturgeon said with a police investigation underway it “would be wrong for me to comment in any more detail”, but added: “What I do think is pretty obvious is that there is a massive operation underway on the part of the Conservatives to divert attention from Boris Johnson.
“And not just Boris Johnson’s single breaking of the rules, but what appears to have been a serial breaching of the rules and, of course, Boris Johnson’s inability to be straight with the House of Commons.”
