Britain’s Labor Party leader Keir Starmer has said he will resign if he is fined by police for breaking royal rules. “I believe in dignity, fairness and the principle that lawmakers must also obey the law,” he said at a news conference. “Of course, if the police fine me, I’ll do what it takes and go.”
Last Friday it was announced that British police are investigating a possible violation of the corona rule by the Leader of the Opposition. Last year, images surfaced of Starmer drinking beer with party members in his office in Durham in the spring – amid a strict lockdown. Political opponents describe it as a party, but he himself has always claimed to work and stop for a curry and a drink.
Police have already ruled that no rules have been broken by the Social Democrat, but opened the investigation last week after new information emerged. Starmer said then, as now, that there was no offense for him.
Conservatives: Starmer is a hypocrite
Starmer said: “I have made a fundamental decision that I will stand by: If you write the law, you must obey the law. Therefore, if you are found to have broken the same law, you must resign.” “For me this is a matter of principle. It is about who I am and what I represent. Not all politicians are the same, I am different.”
The Labor leader has come under fire for images of him and his party members drinking beer. Conservatives accuse him of hypocrisy for harshly condemning isolationist parties at Prime Minister Johnson’s residence at 10 Downing Street. He urged British Prime Minister Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sunak to resign after his corona verdict, but they refused to resign.
“The idea that I’m going to indiscriminately break the rules is totally wrong. Frankly, I don’t think my prosecutors believe that either. They cynically try to feed the people, they want you. to believe that all politicians are the same,” Starmer said, echoing his thinly veiled criticism of Johnson and the Sunak.
Source: NOS
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