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Durham Police retrospectively fined a woman £10,000 for breaching Covid rules when she held a memorial event for her father-in-law - within weeks of Keir Starmer's 'Beergate' gathering.
In a high-stakes gamble earlier this week, the Labour leader said he would ‘do the right thing and step down’ if Durham Constabulary fined him over his lockdown beer with aides.
Durham Police has so far refused to disclose whether it will fine Mr Starmer if it finds he broke lockdown rules when he gathered with MPs and officials in Durham Miners Hall on April 30 last year.
Supporters of the Opposition leader believe the force will not issue a retrospective fine after they decided against issuing a fixed penalty notice to Dominic Cummings, then chief advisor to Boris Johnson, over his trip to Barnard Castle in the county.
But Durham Police appeared to take a stricter view of rule-breakers later in the pandemic when it handed a
