The ‘Beergate’ investigation into Keir Starmer cost taxpayers £101,000 - and used nine major crime detectives.
Durham Police held a two-month probe into whether Labour ’s leader broke lockdown rules - opened after a Tory MP and newspapers repeatedly urged it to do so.
The price tag is much smaller than £460,000 the Met Police spent investigating lockdown breaches in Downing Street and Whitehall.
