abour leader Sir Keir Starmer leaves his home to attend the State Opening of Parliament earlier.
(Picture: PA)Labour have circled the wagons around leader Sir Keir Starmer with a shadow minister insisting on Tuesday she is confident he didn’t break any Covid rules over ‘beergate’.
Bridget Phillipson, shadow education secretary, backed the Labour leader’s bold gamble on Monday to place his political future in the hands of Durham Police who are reinvestigating claims that Sir Keir may have breached lockdown laws when he stopped to eat curry and drink beer during a party campaign event in Durham last year.
