London, Thanasis Gavos
His resignation from his leadership Labor Party of the British official opposition will submit the Sir Kir Starmer if the police impose a fine on him for violating the pandemic lockdown rules, as he announced.
Sir Kir’s statement follows announcement of the Durham Police Department in the North of England on Friday that it will finally conduct an investigation to determine whether the Labor leader broke the rules by drinking Indian curry and drinking beer with at least 15 of his associates and party officials at an evening meeting last spring, while indoor social gatherings were banned.
The so called ‘beergate’ was shaken again in the days before Thursday’s municipal elections by Conservative Party officials and a portion of the Conservative press. On Sunday, the Mail on Sunday published a note from Mr. Starmer’s associates with the schedule of his obligations that day stating that Indian food was to be ordered at the end of the day and not between meetings, as he claims so far the Labor leader.
As Mr Starmer said in a statement on Monday afternoon, it was clear to him that he had not broken the rules and that all he had done was order something to eat while he worked until late on the eve of an inoculated election process.
He added that in case of a fine he would resign because “citizens have the right to expect politicians to follow the rules” and because he believes in “honesty and integrity”.
With these statements he wanted to compare himself with the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who rejected the frequent request of the Labor Party to resign after the fine imposed on him by the Metropolitan Police of London for the ‘partygate’.
Mr. Starmer was filmed from a distance in front of a window at the Labor Party offices in Durham on April 30, 2021, holding a bottle of beer. In the same room can be seen executives of the local organization of Labor.
Sir Kear dismissed any suspicion of breach of the rules from the outset, saying that the drink and food were ordered from outside during the long-running Hartlipul inoculation and that the rally was by no means a party.
The note, published by the Mail on Sunday, however, according to ruling Conservative officials, proves Sir Kir’s “hypocrisy”, as he accuses Boris Johnson of deliberately violating the rules and misleading Parliament about the partygate. attended a planned gathering of a social rather than a working nature.
The Durham Police Department’s investigation into the investigation acknowledged that no violation of the rules had been found in the initial examination of the complaints, however “Important new information” dictates that new research be conducted.
The Labor Party has been criticized, among other things, for belatedly admitting that Deputy Labor leader Angela Reiner was also present at the rally.
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