Will Keir Starmer now have to resign?

Sir Keir Starmer has sown the wind – and now he reaps the whirlwind. The Labour leader has led the charge on Partygate these past six months, releasing endless statements, clips and quotes castigating Boris Johnson for the gatherings in No. 10 during Covid. But today Durham Police have announced they will investigate an alleged lockdown breach by Sir Keir, who was photographed drinking and eating a curry during the ‘Beergate’ incident of April 2021. Steerpike thought it would be timely to look back at just some of the recent occasions when the Labour leader moralised about ‘Partygate’…

19 January – Amid fresh reports of more new parties, Starmer demands Johnson’s resignation in the House of Commons at PMQs. His grounds for this are the Prime Minister changing his justification for what went on during Downing Street in 2020 and 2021. He says in the Commons:

Last year, we were told by the Prime Minister that there were no Downing Street parties.