Labour MP claims reporter broke into her office to find Beergate material

‘No matter how much the Tory MPs and the press were trying to make this story, people weren’t having it,’ says Foy. Photograph: Mark Pinder/The Guardian

A Labour MP has claimed a reporter broke into her office to find material about Beergate, amid the media furore over accusations of lockdown breaches that she said had been devastating to her in her first years as an MP.

Speaking for the first time since police cleared Keir Starmer of lockdown breaches, the City of Durham MP, Mary Foy, said she had been shattered by the media storm surrounding the meeting at her offices, where Starmer was pictured with a beer.