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Conservative MPs last night demanded the Met Police investigate Sir Keir Starmer over his 'beer party' last April.
The Labour leader was pictured drinking indoors with colleagues just before last year's local elections, while Covid restrictions were in place.
David Morris, Tory MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, told the Commons there was 'no difference' between what Boris Johnson and Sir Keir had been accused of.
And Alexander Stafford, Tory MP for Rother Valley, said there should be no 'hypocrisy' and that 'all sides need to be investigated'.
He told MPs: 'Those in glass houses should not throw beer bottles.'
The Labour leader was pictured drinking indoors with colleagues just before last year's local elections
Sir Keir was pictured drinking a bottle of beer in a Durham constituency office with other Labour campaigners in April last year, days before the local elections.
At the time, England was in 'step two' of the roadmap out of lockdown – when indoor socialising with people from outside the household was banned.
Sir Keir has said there was 'no comparison' with his actions and the Prime Minister's attendance at an event in the Downing Street garden where 100 had been
