Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and his deputy Angela Rayner have pledged to resign if they are fined following allegations they broke covid laws. Both attended a gathering involving beer and curry at the party headquarters in Durham during the campaign trail in April last year.
Initially police said they would not be investigating the claims. However on Friday they announced they had reversed an earlier decision on the case that no offence had been committed, after receiving “significant new information”.
On Monday the opposition leader, who had previously said Prime Minister Boris Johnson “needs to do the decent thing and resign” after he became embroiled in lockdown breach allegations, made a statement following the police decision.
