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Keir Starmer announces he won't attend World Cup in Qatar because of human rights record

Sir Keir Starmer has insisted that he will not be attending this year's World Cup in Qatar, after further claims of human rights abuse emerged yesterday.

The Labour chief also noted that none of his colleagues will be in attendance at the tournament in the Middle Eastern country - where being homosexual is against the law.

Asked whether he would go if England reached the final, he told LBC: “No, I wouldn’t. I’d love to but the human rights record is such I wouldn’t go. That would be the position of the party.”

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