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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jim Waterson Media editor

How media took nine months to leap on Starmer beer footage

Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer. The lockdown footage of the Labour leader was filmed on 30 April 2021 by a Durham University student. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

If Keir Starmer is fined for a breach of lockdown rules, the person who would claim credit for bringing him down is the anti-lockdown campaigner Laurence Fox.

Fox, the former actor and leader of the niche Reclaim party, was the first person to widely share a 34-second grainy video showing the maskless Labour leader having a beer with one of his MPs after a day’s campaigning. In the background party activists can be seen eating curry, in what Labour has always insisted was a work environment.

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